Twice a week, students at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., go to a parking garage to blow their noses. Then they stick the swab into a vial, the vial into a box, sanitize their hands again, and head out. A primary reason many colleges in Massachusetts, New York, Maine and Vermont have experienced few coronavirus outbreaks this fall has been frequent, widespread testing. At 108 colleges and universities, that testing is being done within a carefully orchestrated system run by the Broad Institute. The testing, along with strict, state-level quarantine orders and low levels of community spread in the region, has helped keep infection rates at schools working with Broad below 0.2%.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 16, 2020 12:01 UTC