NIH, HHS fast-tracking point-of-care, pooled tech as way out of testing crunch

The U.S. government is taking non-conventional paths to point-of-care and pooled technologies in its push to bulk up and speed up the country’s strained COVID-19 testing capacity.

In HHS’s case, the department is scrambling to patch together all available testing resources to meet surging demand. At NIH, a new program launched five days after federal funds became available is taking an aggressively streamlined approach that arguably models how translational research should have been conducted all along...