Testing

CellDrop Biosciences Inc., a University of Wyoming spinout company, is part of a $354,000 grant to develop sensitive and extremely fast antigen tests for COVID-19.
The competitive grant comes from the COVID Innovations Fund of UW’s Wyoming Health and Bioscience Innovation Hub...

The Wyoming Department of Corrections will begin testing all inmates and employees for COVID-19 next week, the agency announced Wednesday.

The potential downsides include lower accuracy and longer waits to deliver results to some people.

Officials say another recently publicized case at Life Care Center of Casper was unrelated to that facility as well.

The samples go to a wastewater epidemiology company in Massachusetts.

More test results are pending, the department said.

The tests currently cost $100 each for a testing kit and shipping.

The two primary types of test which are currently available are viral tests and antibody tests.