Organizing into teams: A more effective way to test & contact trace

One of the accomplishments we’re most proud of came about by pooling our collective talents to develop a testing software that interfaces with laboratories across the country. Schools can use this software to open back up and stay open safely.

Why we want schools to stay open

If schools close, the rest of the country closes with them. The?Rockefeller Foundation?recently made a good point about schools handling major health decisions — they said that while schools are central to the health and well-being of communities across the U.S., they are not medical centers.

The Rockefeller Foundation fears that schools will be overwhelmed by the sheer number of public health decisions they have to make in the absence of clear guidance. They think the direct benefits of routine testing at schools can only be realized if testing is easy, accessible and affordable to every education organization.

Fast results

When there is a positive result in a school, Crush by MN offers customized options to notify individuals. We keep it as simple as possible — no additional tests are needed. We provide fast results to each person tested, rather than just the group. This lets schools react quickly without having to wait to find the positive person first.

Crush Covid with our Teams method

With our testing program, you can organize teachers, faculty and students into dynamic teams. Schools can group individuals by categories like grade, location, class, extracurricular activity, etc. This will give you visibility into real-time spread from a Covid-positive person at your school. Organizing people by teams helps schools get the most out of Covid-19 testing and effectively?contact trace.

Contact tracing is a process that can slow the spread of the virus. It includes notifying contacts of exposure, asking who they came in contact with, alerting those individuals without saying who tested positive, encouraging self-quarantining, monitoring symptoms, and assessing the need for additional support during quarantine.

With our method, the school would be aware of which participants are positive for Covid-19 and the system would flag any other teams the positive person is part of, thereby alerting them to other possible exposures.

For example, let’s say a 6th grade team member who is positive for Covid-19 is a member of the Bus 52 team and the Girls Choir 3rd Hour team. The teams method would assist her school with contact tracing efforts and would give real-time information into her potential Covid-19 exposures. The platform also knows who has been vaccinated or has had covid in the last 90 days, these individuals are not flagged to potentially quarantine bases on exposure like others maybe.

Better still, schools using Crush by MN can tap into all the labs integrated with the platform and are never subject to a single lab’s capacity or current turnaround times. We make sure you get the results you need when you need them.

Find out more about how Crush by MN can help your school re-open and stay open.?Contact us here.