Experts wonder if the return of sports could burden an increasingly-fragile testing infrastructure.
while some in the general population struggled to get tested.
Quest Diagnostics, which has facilitated some of the NBA's testing, said this week that everyone outside of its high-priority group — namely hospital patients and symptomatic health care workers — would now have to wait 4 to 6 days for their results. LabCorp, another major commercial lab, said Wednesday that it is experiencing similar issues.
"I have hospitals that need a certain turnaround time because they want to do some elective procedures," he explained. "I know we have urgent cares where people are suffering, that need certain turnaround times. I have sports franchises that need certain things to be able to function in their leagues. ... It’s not one versus the other. It’s not like you need to do these before those, and everything else. We make the commitment, and then honor our commitments.
"BioReference has brought new testing capacity to its laboratory in Central Florida in order to manage NBA and local testing needs simultaneously, and ensure that tests in Florida supporting hospitals and patients are not diverted from the community," NBA spokesperson Mike Bass said in a statement. The league also said its Utah lab is subcontracting with a second unspecified lab"to ensure continuity of results reporting." Several MLB teams had to pause their workouts this month due to delays in test results.
While manufacturers have ramped up production of materials such as swabs, reagents and pipettes,"they're still not able to keep up" with demand, Blank said — and that appears unlikely to change anytime soon. "Bigger picture, it’s hard to imagine that you’d have a really large organization that plans to do massive testing — multiple times per week — and be certain that it won’t somehow put a burden on the system," said Ryan Demmer, an associate professor of epidemiology and community health at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health.To counteract their potential burdens, the NBA, MLB and MLS have pledged to help provide COVID-19 tests or antibody tests for the public.
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