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What is pooled testing for COVID-19 and how can it help fight the virus?

from Reuters

What is pooled testing for COVID-19 and how can it help fight the virus? Reuters U.S. health officials including Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, have called for so-called pooled testing to diagnose COVID-19 in order to test more people faster and cut down on mounting turnaround times for getting results. Quest Diagnostics recently received the first emergency authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to use pooled testing to help reduce its backlog of COVID-19 tests. The following is a description of how it works and the advantages and disadvantages of pooled testing. READ MORE

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