U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Selects OraSure Technologies, Inc. InteliSwab® COVID-19 Rapid Test to Distribute to Schools
May 25, 2022 at 07:05 am
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OraSure Technologies, Inc. announced that its InteliSwab® COVID-19 Rapid Test has been selected by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to be distributed to schools nationwide. The HHS program provides school districts with at-home COVID-19 test kits to be sent home with students, teachers and staff to help keep the nation's schools safe as the pandemic continues. Tests provided under this program will be funded as part of OraSure's procurement contract from the Defense Logistics Agency.
OraSure Technologies, Inc. provides point-of-care and home diagnostic tests, sample management solutions, and microbiome laboratory and analytical services. The Company's product portfolio is divided into diagnostics products and sample management solutions. Its business consists of the development, manufacture, marketing and sale of diagnostic products and specimen collection devices using its technologies, as well as other diagnostic products including immunoassays and other in vitro diagnostic tests that are used on other specimen types. Its diagnostic products include tests for diseases including COVID-19, HIV and Hepatitis C that are performed on a rapid basis at the point of care, and tests for drugs of abuse that are processed in a laboratory. Its business also includes molecular sample management solutions and services that are used by clinical laboratories, direct-to-consumer laboratories, researchers, pharmaceutical companies, and animal health service and product providers.