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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums10 days for coronavirus test results, 160,000 backlogged tests:
The struggle to keep pace with the pandemic in the USAs the US health care system has scrambled to track the spread of coronavirus, one of the nation's largest commercial labs has faced a backlog of tests that ballooned in the last two weeks, and has delayed results in some cases up to 10 days.
New Jersey-based Quest Diagnostics had about 160,000 coronavirus test orders waiting to be processed on March 25, which amounted to about half of the 320,000 total orders for the tests the company had received up to that date, according to Quest internal materials obtained by CNN.
The company, which is now testing for the virus at a dozen labs across the country, referred to the orders as a "significant amount of backlog," according to the materials.
Although a vast network of labs at public health departments and universities are also testing for the novel coronavirus, the Trump administration has leaned on commercial labs, which have greater capacity, to roll out widespread testing
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/10-days-for-coronavirus-test-results-160000-backlogged-tests-the-struggle-to-keep-pace-with-the-pandemic-in-the-us/ar-BB122FYG?li=BBnb7Kz
Quest Diagnostics probably has their hands full doing company drug screening. That's usually what they do.
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10 days for coronavirus test results, 160,000 backlogged tests: (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Apr 2020
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Phoenix61
(17,028 posts)1. They are the in network lab for my insurance.
In 10 days you could be well or dead.
mercuryblues
(14,564 posts)2. I posted this the other day. I was livid
Luckily, I just found out today that my Daughter in Law's father tested negative. He took the test over a week ago. The day he found out he needed to be tested, my son and DIL visited us. We social distanced and all, but you never know.
If he had tested positive, she then would be eligible to be tested. Which would have been 10-14 days for her results. If she was positive, then I could get a test. Where I live you have to come in contact with a CONFIRMED case before you are tested or really sick. My state has barely done 5,000 tests. We have 1,000 cases.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13180867
uponit7771
(90,378 posts)3. THIS IS ON PURPOSE !!!