The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, enrollment ~51k, has done 294,000+ tests since school started through its on campus, saliva-based rapid testing.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, enrollment ~25k, has done 3,671 through the nasalpharyngeal swab-based Test Nebraska.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, enrollment ~25k, has done 3,671 through the nasalpharyngeal swab-based Test Nebraska.
UNL researchers made the pitch to do saliva-based COVID testing (less invasive, easier to get supplies), estimating with existing lab capacity on campus they could do 1,000 tests/day, but were told NU had already signed on with Test Nebraska: journalstar.com/news/local/edu…
Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird just said a short time ago during the #LNK city council meeting that Test Nebraska experienced another glitch over the weekend that delayed test results from being reported.
The University of Colorado-Boulder, on which @Lord_of_Flyz based the COVID saliva test he developed at UNL, is used in a surveillance/monitoring capacity. They've done more than 12,000 tests to date, per the university's dashboard.
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