CEO SUMMARY: As influenza A/H1N1 spread, clinical labs nationwide learned that they did not have the capacity to test for an outbreak of flu that generated a 10-fold increase in sample volume. To move the samples through the system, many clinical labs ran extra shifts and ran short of supplies. It was a similar situation […]
Influenza A/H1N1 Outbreak Offers Lessons for Labs
Lack of influenza test capacity at peak demand is warning to private labs and public health labs
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XVI No. 8 - June 8, 2009 Issue
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