New York City has opened its own coronavirus testing lab in hopes to increase efficiency by ElanaLyn
, meaning New Yorkers won’t need to depend on laboratory companies which are faced with demand from across the country.
The lab has already returned results on the first 712 samples it had been sent and can currently process about 3,000 samples a day, a spokesman for the lab said. James Patchett, the president of New York City’s economic development corporation hopes pooling will allow the lab to test 40,000 to 60,000 samples a day.
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