mLife is seeking to facilitate testing of workers in group settings encountering coronavirus outbreaks.  This could be a nursing home, a convalescent center, a detention facility or a food processing facility.  In particular, mLife would like to help test symptomatic front line workers at these facilities who have encountered potentially positive people as part of their work activities and would benefit from testing.  The facility should have available a registered nurse, medical officer or medical practitioner who has prescribed and can administer nasal swabs for the symptomatic positives among those workers.  If the facility and the individuals being testing are willing to participate, the mLife TrueTM swab would be used to collect a specimen, and then the nurse or practitioner would administer the nasal swab.  Both specimens would be sent to one of mLife's partner labs for parallel testing, and mLife would cover the cost of this testing and ensure prompt return of results to the participants.

 

There are several important goals.  First we feel a need to increase testing at local facilities for the benefit of the front line workers carrying out tasks important to our community.  This can improve the amount of testing available and lower costs to the facility.

 

Second, mLife will collect anonymous data showing how the mLife True works compared with the nasal swabs.  This data will be submitted to the FDA and help mLife secure approval for the mLife True collection kit.  This can help improve testing in Marshall and elsewhere, by making widely available an oral testing method that does not put healthcare workers at risk as is the case with nasal swabs.

 

If you believe that your facility is a good candidate for this program, send an email to info@mlifedx.com or call 903-472-4266. 

 

Thank you City of Marshall for your help in this important initiative!