News on issues related to managing clinical laboratories.
The company said that by the end of June it would have made available more than 500,000 kits, which allow individuals to self-collect nasal samples at home.
More than 70 percent of labs surveyed experienced supply chain interruptions, forcing them to validate three or more diagnostic testing methods.
The bills would award grants to help public health laboratories purchase high-throughput instruments and to help support diagnostic testing outside of the lab setting.
High-profile groups have proposed population-scale testing as key to a safe reopening, but the test numbers they propose dwarf current and projected lab capacity.
A professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, Gregory Tsongalis has published a paper detailing his lab's work on SARS-CoV-2 testing and the challenges faced.
