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By Marc Lutz 

Schools will administer COVID tests for student-athletes

 

September 30, 2021



A plan to start testing student-athletes for COVID-19 will produce faster results and make it possible to continue scheduled home and away games while keeping kids safe, school officials said.

Athletes have to test twice a week, before and after games. Results from the tests that look for genetic material from the virus in a nasal swab take two to three days, known as PCR tests. The schools are going to use an antigen test, which looks for a protein from the virus and can yield results in 15 minutes.

Antigen tests for COVID-19 “are generally less sensitive” than the PCR tests, according...



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