Maintaining social distancing will be the price that labs and other businesses will have to pay to reopen and remain open until the COVID-19 threat goes away. But for social distancing to work, there … [Read more...]
GAO Report
Federal COVID-19 Testing Data Collection Effort Has Been Ineffective
July 3, 2020
The federal government has done a poor job of collecting and reporting COVID-19 testing data to the CDC since the pandemic began. That’s the conclusion of a U.S. Government and Accountability Office … [Read more...]
Congress to HHS
Give Labs the Money They Need to Develop COVID-19 Testing Capacity
June 17, 2020
This is a bad time to be a clinical lab in the U.S. Although a recovery seems to be in the works, the pandemic has drastically reduced testing for just about anything and everything other than … [Read more...]
Two New Bills
New Federal Legislation Would Give Labs Grants to Expand COVID-19 Testing Capacity
June 17, 2020
We all hope the worst of the pandemic is over and that life can get back to something like normal. But even as America reopens, the disturbing truth remains that the virus is still out there and that … [Read more...]
New Laws
HHS Requires Labs to Report Extensive & Unprecedented COVID-19 Testing Data by August 1
June 17, 2020
Three months into the pandemic, HHS has decided that it would be a good idea for labs that perform COVID-19 testing to report not only test results but other real-time data that labs generally don’t … [Read more...]
Focus On
Doctors & Nurses Eager to Get Back to Work Despite COVID-19 Anxieties
May 27, 2020
Layoffs and furloughs are a new thing for many medical professionals who’ve come to expect stability in their employment. So, it’s not surprising that a new survey suggests that medical professionals … [Read more...]
