Quest Diagnostics to Provide Covid-19 School Testing Services in Texas
October 20 2021 - 9:27AM
Dow Jones News
By Michael Dabaie
Quest Diagnostics Inc. said it was in an agreement with the
Texas Department of State Health Services to provide Covid-19
kindergarten through senior school testing services.
Ginkgo Bioworks, through its Concentric by Ginkgo program, would
provide support services, such as online reporting and site
staffing, for the program.
With thousands of schools eligible for the program throughout
over 1,150 districts in Texas, Quest Diagnostics said it would
offer Covid-19 testing services to participating public, private
and charter K-12 schools for the duration of the 2021-2022 school
year.
Quest will perform testing using polymerase chain reaction, or
PCR, and other nucleic acid amplification test technologies through
its clinical laboratories in the Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth
metropolitan areas.
Under the state program, school administrators can elect to
implement a testing program through pooled testing.
Pooled testing combines specimens, typically nasal swabs, from
all consenting individuals in a classroom and runs them as a single
test.
Write to Michael Dabaie at michael.dabaie@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
October 20, 2021 09:12 ET (13:12 GMT)
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