CEO SUMMARY: Because of a severe shortage of supplies, members of Michigan’s two hospital laboratory networks have been stymied in their ability to respond to the pandemic and operate their SARS-CoV-2 analyzers at full capacity. The lack of primers, reagents, specimen-collection swabs, test kits, and viral transport media resulted from directives federal officials imposed in the supply chain in favor of […]
In Michigan, Short Supplies Constrain COVID Test Capacity
JVHL labs say lack of supplies limits COVID-19 testing to just 40% of capacity
- By Joseph Burns
- > From the Volume XXVII No. 8 - June 1, 2020 Issue
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