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. […]
In New York, Lab Offers Mobile Virus Sample Collections
Phlebotomists trained in use of NP swabs collect COVID-19 specimens at residences of certain patients
- By Joseph Burns
- > From the Volume XXVII No. 5 - March 30, 2020 Issue
