Tuesday, January 26, 2021

What "open" will mean at UPENN: "...the program aims to conduct 40,000 COVID-19 tests each week..."

...The infrastructure developed through Project Quaker will allow Penn to conduct 40,000 saliva-based COVID-19 tests every week. This includes twice-weekly tests for undergraduate students and those living on campus and weekly tests for graduate students, faculty, and staff who come to campus or who have regular contact with the campus community.

The goal is to test broadly and repeatedly to identify individuals with COVID-19 as early as possible in order to shut down transmission. The strategy incorporates approaches that have proven successful on other college campuses. “What we focused on here is screening testing,” says DubĂ© about Project Quaker’s design. “This is one of our public health tools that allows us to monitor disease. If we see a rise in cases, it tells us that we need to change the restrictions that we put on members of our community.”..

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/project-quaker-testing-program-key-safe-campus-reopening

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