Top Public IVD Companies Report Q3/Q4 2022 Earnings

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 17 – December 12, 2022 Issue

IT WAS A MIXED BAG OF THIRD QUARTER FINANCIAL RESULTS for the nation’s largest in vitro diagnostics (IVD) manufacturers, with COVID-19 testing volume a contributing factor.  Fluctuating demand for SARS-CoV-2 testing proved perplexing, as some IV…

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2021 Rankings of the World’s Top 12 IVD Companies

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 12 – August 29, 2022 Issue

WHILE THERE WAS SOME JOCKEYING FOR NEW positions, in vitro diagnostics (IVD) manufacturers remain entrenched in their market based on The Dark Report’s 2021 ranking of the Top 12 IVD Companies.  COVID-1…

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Amazon to Close Employee COVID-19 Testing Lab in Ky.

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 8 – June 6, 2022 Issue

IN A MOVE THAT MAY SURPRISE SOME OBSERVERS, Amazon announced it will close its COVID-19 employee testing laboratory in Hebron, Ky., which is just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati.  This is the second large COVID-19 clinical laboratory to publ…

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California Cancels COVID-19 Test Contract with PerkinElmer

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 7 – May 16, 2022 Issue

CALIFORNIA HAS SHED MORE LIGHT ON THE DECISION to terminate PerkinElmer’s valuable contract to run the Valencia Branch Laboratory (VBL). The lab has been embroiled in controversy for much of its existence.  The state noted that SARS-CoV-2…

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Decline in COVID-19 Test Orders Signals a Shift

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 5 – April 4, 2022 Issue

MIGHT THE FEDERAL HEALTHCARE ESTABLISHMENT BE CLOSE TO DECLARING AN END TO THE SARS-COV2 PANDEMIC and—given the ongoing decline in the daily number of new cases and deaths—that COVID-19 is expected to become an endemic disease?  The SARS-CoV-2 statis…

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California Agency Problems Deepened Valencia Branch Laboratory Saga

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 5 – April 4, 2022 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Adding a new twist in the ongoing saga of the CLIA compliance failures at the Valencia Branch Laboratory in California are insights from a former clinical laboratory director familiar with the industry in California. He observed that problems at California’s Laborator…

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PerkinElmer Says California Terminated COVID-19 Contract

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 5 – April 4, 2022 Issue

ACCORDING TO A NEW SECURITIES FILING FROM PERKINELMER, the State of California served notice of termination of the company’s contract to run the beleaguered Valencia Branch Laboratory (VBL). PerkinElmer, a diagnostics firm based in Waltham, Mass., made the surprising announcement a…

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Questions Remain about California COVID-19 Lab

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 4 – March 14, 2022 Issue

This is an excerpt of a 2,058-word article in the March 14, 2022 issue of  THE DARK REPORT. The full article is available to members of The Dark Intelligence Group CEO SUMMARY: Despite multiple investigations citing more than 60 deficiencies, including some that caused immediate j…

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Questions Remain about California’s Valencia Lab

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXIX, No. 4 – March 14, 2022 Issue

CEO SUMMARY: Despite multiple investigations citing more than 60 deficiencies, including some that caused immediate jeopardy to patient safety according to state inspectors, the Valencia Branch Laboratory never closed. The California Department of Public health said the state lab no…

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Major CLIA Deficiencies Found at California’s COVID-19 Lab Facility

By Robert Michel | From the Volume XXVIII, No. 16 – November 29, 2021 Issue

MIGHT THERE BE DIFFERENT STANDARDS IN HOW government regulators enforce CLIA requirements on privately-owned clinical laboratories compared to a government-owned lab?  This question is being asked after the California Department of Public Health (…

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