A virus test that is fit for athletes: A spit tube

In early March, as the coronavirus was spreading across the United States and testing capacity was already a problem, Bill Phillips had an idea.Phillips is the chief operating officer of a medical device company, Spectrum Solutions, that provides saliva test kits for companies like Ancestry.com. He wondered if Spectrum’s kits — which require customers to spit in a tube and ship their samples through the mail — could work with detecting this new virus.“I just threw it out