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FDA Approves Saliva COVID-19 Test

Summary by Cindy Olmstead
  • March 13, 2021

An inexpensive and effective saliva-based COVID-19 test called covidSHIELD was approved by the FDA March 1, 2021. University of Illinois researchers developed and used covidSHIELD at its three campuses beginning in fall 2020, and have taken more than 1.5 million samples to date, according to the Chicago Tribune. University officials reported that the test is capable of detecting very small amounts of genetic material, including mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that originated in other...