The FDA has now approved two methods of testing swab samples, with several more in queue.
As the U.S. grapples with a severe delay in coronavirus testing and screening, official efforts to crack down on large gatherings and keep citizens indoors — otherwise known as social distancing — may help reduce the strain of the outbreak on health services. It is also a key factor in mitigating the spread of COVID-19.
Initially, it took several days to receive the test results. But after the CDC began providing testing kits to public labs and state health labs, it reduced the amount of turnaround time to a couple of days. The samples that commercial labs receive from doctors offices have a turnaround time of three to four days. Both Quest and LabCorp are processing the swabs at a single designated lab, each within their own company’s network.
There’s also drive-thru swab testing, like Mayo Clinic and CVS are offering, with Walmart , Target and Walgreens have committed to rolling out similar testing. The option involves molecular testing that runs the specimen against the virus data, would also reduce the amount of time for a result, and may be used at the bedside in a hospital.
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