To help ensure schools can more safely resume in-person learning, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) announced Wednesday that it is expanding access to free COVID-19 testing to all K-12 public schools across Illinois outside of Chicago, which received its own federal funding.
Schools can choose to utilize the SHIELD Illinois saliva-based test developed by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), which is able to detect SARS-CoV-2 and its variants in symptomatic, pre-symptomatic, and…
