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Pooled testing for the football team/staff/students
Posted on 8/14/20 at 4:57 pm
Posted on 8/14/20 at 4:57 pm
been seeing some traffic on the subject...mentioning Florida and LSU in particular. (placed here because of processing tests for the football team)
back early on in all of this, there was talk of the vet school processing tests and forming an entity called River Road Testing Lab to handle it...
have heard nothing else in a couple of months, seems to me that this was a good idea where tests could be processed on campus and quickly.
does anyone else have info on what's going on? will they be processing tests for the football team and other students?
back early on in all of this, there was talk of the vet school processing tests and forming an entity called River Road Testing Lab to handle it...
have heard nothing else in a couple of months, seems to me that this was a good idea where tests could be processed on campus and quickly.
does anyone else have info on what's going on? will they be processing tests for the football team and other students?
Posted on 8/14/20 at 5:00 pm to vl100butch
You're not going to solve this problem.
Posted on 8/14/20 at 5:02 pm to kkv75
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You're not going to solve this problem.
understood, just wondering what happened after all the early hype...
Posted on 8/14/20 at 5:16 pm to vl100butch
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been seeing some traffic on the subject...mentioning Florida and LSU in particular. (placed here because of processing tests for the football team)
Essentially it is a faster way to process the samples and get back results quicker. They take parts of multiple samples and combine them to do a reaction test all in one. If the result comes back negative, then you know all the people that batch of samples was taken from are negative. If it tests positive, then you have to go back and test individually to see which one is the positive.
With the percentages the way they are, you are way more likely to have negatives; so instead of going through each one to rule the majority out, just do it as a batch.
The downside is that taking a portion of a sample from one where the viral load may already be low and diluting it further with other samples could potentially result in a false negative test.
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River Road Testing Lab
Not positive on this part; but a good guess would be this is what the 2 LSU researchers that developed a lab at the Vet School (which part is located on River Rd.) named their lab. They were doing research in developing a faster way to test and were the ones that found a way to test saliva and get as reliable test results as from doing the nasal swab.
Posted on 8/14/20 at 5:23 pm to TigerLaw40
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Not positive on this part; but a good guess would be this is what the 2 LSU researchers that developed a lab at the Vet School (which part is located on River Rd.) named their lab. They were doing research in developing a faster way to test and were the ones that found a way to test saliva and get as reliable test results as from doing the nasal swab.
this is what I was talking about...have heard nothing since the initial articles
Posted on 8/14/20 at 8:24 pm to vl100butch
I work in the OLOL ED and we were using them to test all of our swabs at the beginning of all this but we overwhelmed them with the volume of test so it was taking a week to get results. Eventually we were able to do our own in house testing with 1 hour turnarounds so we stopped using them. That was back in June I wanna day. Haven’t heard anything about them since.
Posted on 8/14/20 at 9:06 pm to TigerLaw40
To date: only quest is utilizing pooled testing.
There are no tests FDA cleared for pooled testing.
Any lab that’s wants to do perform pooled testing should get approval for a LDT. This is quite a process.
There are no tests FDA cleared for pooled testing.
Any lab that’s wants to do perform pooled testing should get approval for a LDT. This is quite a process.
Posted on 8/14/20 at 9:17 pm to CMPunkBITW
How is OLOL ED doing? Still busy and lots of covid??
Posted on 8/15/20 at 7:25 am to CMPunkBITW
Hey CMP, OLOL ED has a moderate complex lab?
Posted on 8/15/20 at 7:48 am to BrushyCreekCajun
nvermind
This post was edited on 8/15/20 at 9:48 am
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