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GLEN ALLEN, Va., March 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today 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 twelfth grade return to the classroom for in-person learning. GENETWORx stated that it has 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.
Risk is not an option anymore and with our cost-effective K-12 testing programs, schools have ability and data to help keep students and teachers safe.The pooled COVID-19 testing program offered by GENETWORx provides a comprehensive managed platform to take the pressure off school districts as they reopen. 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.
Pooled testing provides 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. With pooled testing, individual swabs or samples are "pooled" together and run...