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FDA to Allow Labs to Begin Use of High-Complexity Tests for Coronavirus


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FDA to Allow Labs to Begin Use of High-Complexity Tests for Coronavirus

The FDA will allow hundreds of academic hospital labs to immediately begin testing for the novel coronavirus, meaning that the U.S. virtually overnight will become able to test thousands of patients rather than the few hundred tested so far. read more...



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