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FDA authorizes pool testing for COVID-19 through Quest

WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration reissued an emergency use authorization to Quest Diagnostics to use its COVID-19 tests with up to four pooled samples Saturday. According to the FDA, the Quest test is the first COVID-19 test to be authorized for use with pooled samples. Sample pooling allows multiple people to be tested in a pool or "batch" using one test, rather than running each individual sample through its own test. If the batch tests positive, […]

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