NBA & Yale Develop COVID Test
Breakthru COVID 19 Test Developed by Yale-NBA Partnership Source: Yale School of Public Health New Test that's Easy & Inexpensive The FDA has just authorized for use a much faster, easier, inexpensive and more comfortable COVID-19 test, developed through a pioneering partnership between the National Basketball Association (NBA) and Yale University. It's called SalivaDirect. In the Orlando Bubble where they're playing, NBA players and staff volunteered to provide saliva samples for the Yale test. The NBA also provided $500,000 in research funding to Yale University School of Public Health. The players simultaneously took daily nose and mouth swab tests. The much easier saliva sample test proved equally effective. It now has the green light for widespread use. SalivaDirect's Advantages The Yale test has many advantages. It is easy and comfortable: the patient just needs to spit in a cup. It is far less expensive at $10 a test, as opposed to the current t