One of the nation's most important medical testing companies has acknowledged that it has a backlog of at least 115,000 coronavirus tests.
People wait in their vehicles on the second day of coronavirus testing at Bergen Community College, Paramus, New Jersey, Saturday, March 21, 2020.Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images
"In approximately the first two weeks of providing testing, we experienced a sharp influx of test orders that continued to outpace our growing capacity through March," the company said in a statement. "It's a huge deal," says Kelly Wroblewski of the Association of Public Health Laboratories."There was so much promise and fanfare about the commercial laboratories being to take on the bulk of the testing in the country. But the demand is so incredibly high. And the capacity to process and do the testing is stretched incredibly thin.
But the testing problems are hardly limited to private companies. Hospital labs as well as state and local and public health labs are also experiencing backlogs and delays.The problems started when the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention required all testing to go through the agency. Widespread testing was further delayed because the test kits the agency distributed were defective. The CDC eventually resolved that problem.
"I've been trying to stay optimistic through this whole response," Wroblewski says."And hoping that there's light at the end of the tunnel. But I think really we just keep taking it one day at a time and solving the problems we have that day. And doing as many testing as possible that day — and then we do it all over again."
The Cleveland Clinic is restricting the new fast tests to critically ill patients and in some cases, to women giving birth so doctors know if they need to be separated from their newborn babies, Procop says.
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