Rutgers’ saliva-based Covid test could be key to unlocking New Jersey’s economy

[Elderberry]

Politico  By SAM SUTTON 04/23/2020

Rutgers’ saliva-based Covid test could be key to unlocking New Jersey’s economy

New Jersey officials are hoping a saliva-based test developed by Rutgers University will soon allow tens of thousands of state residents a day to be tested for coronavirus.

The test, which was touted by President Donald Trump during a press briefing late last week, could allow New Jersey to roughly triple its current daily testing capacity, potentially putting the state on track to lift elements of a stay-at-home order officials believe has saved tens of thousands of lives at tremendous economic cost.

“Rapid return testing, contact tracing and then a plan for isolation and/or quarantine — those are the essential elements of the infrastructure that we’re going to need before you have the confidence — and we can tell you we’ve got the confidence — to begin to reopen our state,” Murphy said Thursday during his daily coronavirus press briefing in Trenton.

More: https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2020/04/23/rutgers-saliva-based-covid-test-could-be-key-to-unlocking-new-jerseys-economy-1279421

[PeteS in CA]

Is "Touted" the new "Gravitas"? I'm seeing it a lot in connection to things announced/mentioned by Trump at his press briefings. It's a pretty tendentious choice of words. "Announced" or "Mentioned" would be more neutral.