May 19
2020
Saliva Lollipop? Not Yet
After word started spreading about a potential “saliva lollipop” to test for COVID-19, Yahoo News consulted experts.
Richard Watkins, M.D., an infectious disease physician and associate professor of internal medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University, agreed with Amesh A. Adalja, M.S., a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, that such technology is not yet available.
“It’s conceivable, but doesn’t exist now,” said Watkins.
Read the Yahoo News story.
