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 to outside labs and wait up to seven days for results. Yet, those same hospital labs have […]
Why Local Labs Deserve More COVID-19 Supplies
Federal actions continue to give lesser priority to hospital labs, with consequences to patient care
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XXVII No. 10 - July 13, 2020 Issue
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