re: Pooled testing for the football team/staff/students

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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)

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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

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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.