Students scan into sites

[GoodTaste]

"Students scan into sites" doesn't sound like "Students are scanned into sites". So I guess it mean "Students stream into sites". Am I on the right track?


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‘We didn’t model that people would go to a party if they tested positive’
Chemist Martin Burke developed a pioneering coronavirus test for the University of Illinois — but it didn’t stop a spike in student infections on campus.
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Students scan into sites around the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign to be tested for COVID-19 twice a week.Credit: Fred Zwicky/University of Illinois

Source: Nature Sep.11, 2020
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02611-y

 

[GoesStation]

The article probably tells you. My guess: they swipe their student ID cards to gain admittance.

 

[GoodTaste]

That's it: "...You swipe your ID card, and walk into a big open-air tent over to a square that’s 6 feet [2 metres] apart from all the other squares, and you just dribble into a tube. "

 

[Tarheel]

Spit?

 

[GoodTaste]

Spit?

Yes. Read the paper below, which is on the frontpage of the New England Journal of Medicine:

Saliva Specimens to Detect SARS-CoV-2 Infection
A.L. Wyllie and Others

In this letter, the investigators report that saliva specimens and nasopharyngeal swab specimens had similar sensitivity in the detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in both symptomatic and asymptomatic persons.


https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2016359?query=featured_home