Under the K-12 school testing program, GENETWORx can work with school districts to determine the best testing approach for their populations.
Risk is not an option anymore and with our cost-effective managed K-12 school testing programs, schools will have more ability and data to help keep large student populations and teachers safe," he explained. Safe classrooms are possible both during the pandemic and post-pandemic with sequential testing programs that alert school officials of potential outbreaks. "We are committed to assisting schools in returning these students to classrooms. "American children in kindergarten through twelfth grade have been among those hit the hardest by the pandemic's shutdown of normal life," said Beckman. Ten billion dollars in federal funding has been allocated to school districts for a "massive expansion of testing" that would include increased use of rapid tests, expanding lab capacity to process tests faster, and aid to schools and local governments to carry out testing programs. President Biden has stated that his number one priority for education is to reopen schools. We created the GENETWORx K-12 testing solution specifically to assist school districts right now as they implement protocols to keep students and teachers safe while in the classroom," explained Beckman. In order for schools to reopen safely, they need fast, accurate, and low-cost precision testing to help prevent the spread of the virus. "Millions of school children can be tested in smaller groups of multiswab collections or "pools" at regular intervals during the school year to help schools create "safe zones" for in-person learning. Beckman, Ph.D., GENETWORx Director of Laboratory Services. "Pooled testing works like an insurance policy for schools and parents," said Matthew J. The second swab allows for a timely read of individual results when needed. The GENETWORx pooled testing solution is unique in that school districts and businesses also have the option of collecting a second sample at the same time in case the "pool" contains a positive test result. Unless a positive test occurs in the "pool," individual tests are not performed thus lowering costs for schools. With pooled testing, individual swabs or samples are "pooled" together and run as one sample test at the lab. Pooled testing provides a school and public health officials with a surveillance detection system for the presence of the COVID-19 virus in large student populations at a significantly reduced cost. The company, which specializes in COVID-19, infectious disease, and pharmacogenomic testing, has extensive expertise and success in school testing programs nationwide at the college and university level as well as with assisted living facilities, state and emergency management organizations, and businesses.
The pooled COVID-19 testing program offered by GENETWORx provides a comprehensive managed platform to take the pressure off school districts as they reopen. Risk is not an option anymore and with our cost-effective K-12 testing programs, schools have the ability and data to help keep students and teachers safe. GENETWORx stated that it has the capacity to perform COVID-19 tests on millions of schoolchildren each day and up to 60 million tests a month with its K-12 testing program. PRNewswire/ - GENETWORx, a national diagnostic molecular laboratory headquartered in Glen Allen, VA, announced the launch of a COVID-19 pooled testing program specifically aimed at helping millions of students in kindergarten through the twelfth-grade return to the classroom for in-person learning.