Bard Academy and Bard College at Simon’s Rock has hired the Broad Institute’s laboratory, the Clinical Research Sequencing Platform (CRSP), to provide SARS-CoV-2 testing to its students throughout the Fall 2020 semester. This form explains the SARS-CoV-2 test and who will get your results. The test that you will receive is designed to detect if you have SARS-CoV-2, also known as the “coronavirus.”  SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes the disease known as COVID-19. The results of this test will NOT tell you if you had the virus in the past or if you have immunity to getting the virus in the future. IT ONLY TESTS FOR THE PRESENCE OF THE VIRUS IN YOUR SPECIMEN AT THE TIME OF THE TEST. Your specimen will be collected through a process that involves swabbing your nose.

Please review this Fact Sheet for Patients for more details on testing: https://covid-19-test-info.broadinstitute.org/downloads/CRSP_Patient_FactSheet.pdf