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Biotech / Medical : Coronavirus / COVID-19 Pandemic
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Mayo Clinic rolls out COVID-19 test

By Christopher Snowbeck - Star Tribune
March 12, 2020 — 1:34pm

The Mayo Clinic has begun rolling out a test to detect the virus that causes COVID-19 illnesses, a development that comes as concerns build that a lack of testing capacity could thwart a robust response to the outbreak.

Mayo's large commercial lab in Rochester is one of several that have scrambled in recent weeks to create a test that can detect coronavirus in specimens. The lab says it started making tests available to health care providers at Mayo on Thursday and will open the supply to others in the coming days. Mayo's initial capacity of 200 to 300 tests per day is expected to grow in the coming weeks.

Creating a new test usually takes months or even a year, clinic officials say, but they opted to fast-track development of the new test beginning in mid-February after watching the virus overwhelm the health care system in China, where the outbreak strain of coronavirus originated.

"Trying to develop a test in a span of weeks is difficult," said Matthew Binnicker, director of the clinical virology lab at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. "We've been working diligently, around-the-clock."

Mayo Clinic Laboratories is a large commercial lab in Rochester that receives thousands of samples every day from clinics and hospitals around the world, not just from health care providers at Mayo's primary medical centers in Minnesota, Arizona and Florida. Last year, the lab completed about 25 million tests.

More: startribune.com
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