COVID-19 Screening Program

In view of the recent COVID surge and difficulties in obtaining testing, we aim to increase Point of Care (POC) testing, whereby University of Pennsylvania (Penn) faculty, staff, and trainees who are working in person at Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) laboratories can self-test. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the implementation of this POC testing program. We will not be collecting any samples as part of this study. This will ensure that individuals can rapidly identify if they have COVID-19 while balancing use, acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility. We will start with a pilot phase whereby we will evaluate the implementation of a POC version of COVID-19 screening program that will coordinate several existing systems at the University of Pennsylvania including voluntary, self-administered saliva-based viral testing. We will pilot this program to a small cohort of PSOM labs and then test implementation of the self-testing of the POC version of COVID-19 screening across all PSOM labs for those who wish to participate. All results will be self-reported and will not be used to validate any tests or support any future approval from the FDA. No data from this study will go into the participants' Electronic Medical Record (EMR).