On Sept. 2, 2020, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard announced it had partnered with 108 public and private colleges and universities in Massachusetts and the surrounding region to provide regular COVID-19 testing for students, faculty, and staff, as part of back-to-school plans.

In March, Broad Instituteﾒs Genomics Platform converted its existing, highly-automated CLIA-certified laboratory into a high-throughput COVID-19 test processing center. Since then, the Genomics Platform team has processed more than 1.1 million COVID-19 tests, returning results in about 24 hours on average.