One week after the Trump administration promised a massive expansion of free coronavirus testing, the labs tasked with the effort say they need emergency funding to meet rapidly increasing demand.
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A group of at least six lab companies, including Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp, say they are now performing thousands of tests for hospitals and doctors across the country. Yet in Southern California the tests are still almost impossible for many to find.“I’m on Day 13 of fever, tightness in the chest, shortness of breath,” said one Long Beach resident, who said his primary care doctor has made multiple attempts to secure approval for a COVID-19 test for him.
“We … expect up to a half a million additional tests will be available early next week,” Trump said that day. “Until we can expand the circle of people we are testing to include those with mild symptoms or even the asymptomatic ones, they’re going to keep on spreading,” said Dr. Georges Benjamin, the head of the American Public Health Assn. “The more testing you do, the more likely you are to pick up on that population.”
The procedure often requires two swabs so that duplicate specimens from each patient can be taken. Gov. Gavin Newsom said earlier this week that officials are looking into new protocols that use just one swab, thereby doubling the number of patients who can be tested. In recent days, executives at both Quest and LabCorp said they expect the numbers of tests processed to accelerate as they start using more machines that use technology known as high-throughput screening. The machines greatly speed the analysis of test samples.
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