CEO SUMMARY: Some experts on testing strategies support pooled testing because this method may support reopening by schools and businesses and thus bring the economy back. But other experts have raised questions about this strategy. Rules from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services say pooled testing is not diagnostic and so any lab can do these tests. But CMS […]
Officials Differ on Value of COVID-19 Pooled Testing
Screening of asymptomatic people has benefits and is seen as a way to reopen schools, businesses
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XXVII No. 10 - July 13, 2020 Issue
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