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Understanding COVID-19’s Changes to Lab Industry
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVII No. 13 – September 14, 2020 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: With the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic about to enter its eighth month in the United States, it remains difficult to predict whether the pandemic will strengthen with the fall influenza season or steadily diminish. What is clear to most pathologists and clinical laboratory executiv…
Why Local Labs Deserve More COVID-19 Supplies
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVII No. 10 – July 13, 2020 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: As government officials and IVD firms divert the lion’s share of COVID-19 tests to a handful of billion-dollar labs, in thousands of hospitals across the nation COVID-19 patients languish days longer before discharge because their hospital lab must send COVID-19 tests t…
Government Officials Intensify Broad Chaos In Clinical Lab Supply Chain
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVII No. 10 – July 13, 2020 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Clinical labs throughout the United States are ready to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, there is widespread recognition that many barriers to increasing labs’ COVID-19 testing capacity are caused by the inappropriate actions of government…
Labs Still Confront New Supply Shortages Daily
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVII No. 10 – July 13, 2020 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: For three lab directors in the Midwest, a seemingly endless cycle of COVID-19 lab-supply shortages crops up almost daily. These labs might not have enough test kits one day, and be short of reagents, transport vials, or specimen collection swabs the next. To address these…
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Volume XXIX, No. 6 – April 25, 2022
The Dark Report examines the lab staffing shortage crisis, including the causes and potential remedies. In other news, the Ramesh Balwani trial, like that of Elizabeth Holmes, is raising questions of who is responsible for lab problems — the lab director or company executives. Also, the DOJ contends in a court motion that EKRA governs lab sales and marketing commissions.
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