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In New York, Lab Offers Mobile Virus Sample Collections

CEO SUMMARY: To allow patients and physicians to order at-home specimen collections of the novel coronavirus, Northwell Labs trained its 12-member mobile phlebotomy service in the procedures needed to collect samples using nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs. Since training occurred in the second week of March, demand has increased steadily from one to two calls per day to five to 10 requests daily. …

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Providers Get Creative as FDA Clears More IVD Firms’ Tests

Clinical Laboratory / By Joseph Burns

CEO SUMMARY: Clinical and molecular test laboratories, hospitals, public health agencies, and other providers are taking unusual measures to expand the number of tests available to identify the spread of the new coronavirus. When a hospital needed funding to buy test kits for the disease, the president of the facility used his own personal funds. When two residents of a resort …

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This Coronavirus Outbreak Will Change Lab Industry

Clinical Laboratory Trends / By Robert Michel

CEO SUMMARY: COVID-19 is causing a level of global disruption not seen since the influenza outbreak of 1918. This new infectious disease exposes flaws in the strategies and planning of public health officials and governments in the United States and abroad. In this country, news media quickly recognized that the unavailability of clinical lab tests for COVID-19 was primarily because healthcare …

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Lab at the Epicenter of NY’s Coronavirus Pandemic

Commentary and Opinion by R. Lewis Dark / By R. Lewis Dark

TODAY, THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC DOMINATES the daily activities of every clinical laboratory in the United States. The emergence of COVID-19 has triggered unprecedented actions by governments in different nations throughout the world. Within this country, all 50 states reported SARS-CoV-2 infections. But it is New York State that was hit hardest early in this pandemic. Until recent …

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March 9, 2020 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News

Late Breaking Lab News / By Robert Michel

Coronavirus, more specifically, the novel coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease, currently dominates global news. This is the third novel strain of coronavirus to emerge as a threat to human health in the past two decades. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was identified in November 2002 and played out by July 2003. China was first …

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Volume XXVII No. 4 – March 9, 2020

CORONAVIRUS HITS THE LAB INDUSTRY especially hard, and THE DARK REPORT is behind the scenes to document early successes. These include the rapid validation of virus tests and the adaption of a mobile phlebotomy lab program to COVID-19 testing by one lab in the heart of the New York pandemic. In non-COVID-19 news, some commercial payers and state Medicaid programs are not paying for new proprietary laboratory analyses (PLA) codes and multianalyte assays with algorithmic analyses (MAAA) codes.

Northwell Lab Team Validates Novel Coronavirus Test on Fast Timeline

TDR Insider / By Mary Van Doren

This is an excerpt of a 2,375-word article in the March 9, 2020 issue of THE DARK REPORT (TDR). The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group. CEO SUMMARY: Clinical labs are working with haste to develop a novel coronavirus test. In this rare behind-the scenes look, laboratorians can learn about …

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