The FDA authorized a saliva-based covid-19 test that the National Basketball Association helped study. The testing method, called salivadirect, is cheap and could be run by most Labs.

An assistant professor at the Yale School of public health and one head of the team developing the test. Labs could charge as little as $ 10 per sample to run the test.

This is the fifth saliva-based testing method authorized by the FDA. People can collect a saliva sample themselves by spitting into a tube. Many labs have struggled to get enough swabs for covid-19 tests.

The salivadirect test for rapid detection of sars-cov-2 is yet another testing innovation game changer that will reduce the demand for scarce testing resources.

The league is playing out the 2020 season inside a’bubble’ at Disney World. The NBA players there are tested for covid-19 nearly every day.

The NBA offered a group of people to study the method in.’they already had staff out there collecting samples,’ said Anne wyllie.