Spectrum Solutions COVID-19 K-12 Testing Toolkit Provides Best Practices and Support for Back-to-Classroom Learning All Year Long

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spectrum Solutions, LLC today announced it has launched a COVID-19 Testing Toolkit that provides the steps, information, and best practices for K-12 schools and districts to implement a pain-free, noninvasive, 99.98% accurate, and repeatable program for COVID-19 testing.

“As school boards around the nation consider opening their doors to students this fall, they are faced with a new wave of risks to student and community health,” said Leslie Titus Bryant, Spectrum Solutions Spokesperson. “The world is facing another surge in COVID-19 cases with this delta variant spreading frighteningly fast around the world. It is absolutely imperative that accurate and reliable early detection for symptomatic and/or asymptomatic cases starts and continues all year to help safeguard students, their families, and our communities.”

Best practices highlight the use of PCR testing, using the non-invasive self-collection of saliva. To date, PCR testing is still considered the “gold standard” being a more sensitive, accurate, and reliable diagnostic test compared to the rapid antigen lateral flow tests (LFT) that may take only minutes for results but continue to deliver unexpectedly high rates of both false-negative and false-positive test results.

Early detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection is critical to reducing the asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic spread of COVID-19. Saliva-based PCR testing is able to accurately detect the presence of COVID-19 days before symptoms appear due to the extraction and amplification process with results in under 24 hours. Spectrum’s highly sensitive formulation is able to detect infections from saliva samples measuring as low as 200 copies/ml compared to rapid antigen LFT requiring a minimum of 10,000-20,000 copies/ml.

The Spectrum toolkit provides informational resources that illustrate how best to support K–12 in-person learning and contains the following:

• Spectrum National K–12 Validated Testing Program Summary
• Understanding the COVID-19 Facts Between PCR and Antigen Testing Data Sheet
• FREE Program Funding Opportunity through CDC – Learn More

K-12 administrators are invited to download the toolkit by visiting: https://spectrumsolution.com/k-12-covid-19-complete-testing-program-toolkit/.

Spectrum Solutions was the first to receive FDA authorization of the saliva-based COVID-19 tests and has helped pioneer a global industry shift favoring a safer, pain-free, and noninvasive bio-sample collection approach. Spectrum has helped a number of organizations such as Major League Baseball, Minor League Baseball and Little League in developing successful, ongoing testing programs.

ABOUT SPECTRUM SOLUTIONS

Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, Spectrum Solutions is a life science medical device manufacturing company focusing its fully-integrated industry expertise on creating forward-looking and scalable end-to-end solutions for clinical diagnostic projects and commercialized product plans. Spectrum is a single-source provider of innovative medical device engineering & product manufacturing, molding, chemical formulation, packaging design, customized kitting, & direct-to-user fulfillment. Its bio-sample collection devices, patented technologies, and dedicated services deliver measurable process optimization, unprecedented efficiency, and unmatched global scalability. For more information, please visit spectrumsolution.com/SDNA.