'If that viral load starts to increase, because you're having frequent testing, we'll quickly pick that up the next time,' Yale University's Anne Wyllie told CNBC on Tuesday.
told CNBC on Tuesday that the school's new saliva-based test for the coronavirus may not always detect people who have really low infection levels.
Yale's test was developed in conjunction with the NBA and its players union, which provided more than $500,000 in funding,Results of Yale's study of its test haveWyllie, an associate research scientist in epidemiology, said Yale's test has ability to detect the coronavirus that is "quite on par with many of the other traditional [polymerase chain reaction] tests that are already out there."are seen to be the most accurate type on the market.
Wyllie noted that Yale's test is not one of the so-called rapid tests that can produce results in 10 to 15 minutes, for example. Saliva samples still must go to a lab. But because of the way the test was designed, she said labs should be able to run more samples than other variations.
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