Santiam Hospital offers saliva test for Covid-19
March 2021 Posted in Your Health | Comments Off on Santiam Hospital offers saliva test for Covid-19By Mary Owen
Santiam Hospital introduces SalivaDirect, a less expensive, less invasive and safer way to test for COVID-19.
“It’s kind of remarkable that our little lab in Stayton, Oregon, is using this test,” said Dr. Janine VanSant, infectious disease specialist. “We are one of the few labs in the Pacific Northwest using it.”
Dr. Sarah Comstock, a molecular biologist from Corban University in Salem, got the ball rolling last April. In the spring of 2020, Comstock found herself with excess time due to few on-campus students, so she began to use her research equipment to develop an FDA EUA (emergency use authorization) test for coronavirus.