Testing laboratories at the center of efforts to track the spread of Covid-19 expect to face record demand in the coming weeks while their workforces are depleted by the very virus they’re surveying
shows more than 554,000 Covid-19 infections are being recorded each day — a number experts believe is a significant undercount.
“We haven't had anything hit in the lab specifically yet where we've had to do any kind of emergency staffing,” Mayo Clinic Laboratories President William Morice said. “But overall for the health system we’re definitely seeing the number of employees who are testing positive really going up.” Another potential bottleneck in the weeks ahead is the number of collection sites where people can get tested — an issue the Biden administration is trying to remedy by expanding the number of sample collection sites.
“We still metered some appointments to be able to maintain turnaround times last year, but we did not have to shut down early or close a site because of staff being ill,” Gottlieb said. “People are going back to doctors’ offices,” Aspinall said. “They're having biopsies and mammograms and physicals and blood tests. So the challenge that the labs have today is they have an enormous number of Covid tests. But in addition, they have general tests that they didn't have a year ago when so many doctors' offices were closed.”
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