A scientific statement supports cascade testing in families with inherited conditions, while cautioning about variants of unknown significance as discovery continues and classifications for now rest heavily on data from populations of European ancestry.

A lab professional who is thinking of adopting pooled COVID testing is worried that reporting would need to be done manually and could overwhelm reporting staff. In response, one lab that has been pooling since early July outlined their approach to reporting pooled results and says that the process has been manageable so far. Another lab doing pooled testing admits it has been very labor intensive and difficult on staff to both prepare and manually report all pools, and that it has increased their turnaround time for COVID tests, too. They have saved 40% of their reagents by pooling, though, and feel that it is worth the extra effort in order to test as many patients as possible.

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