Featured Article: More Schools Are Doing Systemic COVID Testing. Will It Work?

Read the article synopsis below with quotes from Aaron Peacock, Microbac Laboratories’ Director of Molecular Biology:

So far, this sort of school COVID-19 monitoring has usually been done by city partnerships like Oak Ridge’s or universities, which can target collection points in specific dorms. However, Aaron Peacock, the director of Molecular Biology for Microbac, said districts and individual schools can also track the virus through wastewater sampling at each campus or even targeted to restrooms serving particular grades.

However, he warned that these testing systems cannot pinpoint individual cases and are better to be used to look for overall trends in connection with individual testing.

“If the students are running around all day [using different restrooms], it may not provide [leaders] the information they need to pinpoint a specific group,” he said. “It’s good for trends in the population.”

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