The U.S. Food and Drug Administration iss🌳ued an emergency authorization Saturday for a saliva-based COVID-19 test funded by the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association that is a fraction of the price of the current exam for the virus.
Known as SalivaDirect and developed by scientists at Yale University, the test wಞill cost between $15 to $20, .
Researchers at Yale tested SalivaDirect on a group that included NBA players and staff, comparing it to results from nasal swab tests also taken by the same group. The results matched ♐in the majority of cases although the research has not yet been peer-reviewed, ESPN reported.
Anothe🍸r saliva test, developed at a Rutgers University lab in April, cost consumers up to $150, said Andrew Brooks, an associate professor at Rutgers and chief operating officer of RUCDR Infinite Biologics, the lab that developed the test for the virus.