May 25, 2022 – OraSure Technologies 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.
“Keeping children in school is a top priority and our InteliSwab® tests will help make that happen for students across the nation as they complete this school year, move through the summer and start back again in the fall,” said Lisa Nibauer, President of Diagnostics for OraSure Technologies. “The InteliSwab® test is simple to use so anyone who uses it can be confident they performed the test correctly. In a pediatric specific study, 95% of parents indicated that swabbing the nose, and reading the results were easy.”
The overall accuracy of the InteliSwab® test including a pediatric population is 93 percent, demonstrating comparable accuracy to that in adults. Testing with InteliSwab® is simple: users swab their lower nostrils with the test stick, swirl it in a pre-measured solution, and see their result on the test stick in 30 minutes – with no instruments, batteries, smartphone or laboratory analysis needed to see the result. With less than one minute of “hands-on time,” it is as simple as “Swab, Swirl, and See.”