How a biotech CEO figured out Covid-19 surveillance testing for 50 companies with 12-hour turnaround times

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How a biotech CEO figured out Covid-19 testing for 50 companies with a 12-hour turnaround

Kathiresan felt he needed to ensure his company could catch any potential infections that might go undetected, in order to keep his employees healthy. So he tapped his connections. Verve's offices are in the middle of Kendall Square, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the heart of the world's biotechnology industry.

a CLIA lab. You've got an incredible amount of automation and expertise in high throughput processes. Could you stand up this test?'" Gabriel recalled. "And that was really the beginning of all of this. That was the second week of March." "It was a couple thousand tests," Gabriel said. "We detected around 200 infected individuals between the residents and staff that the nursing homes and Cambridge were then able to act on."

"We saw that there was a huge crisis happening," said Caroline Savello, Color's chief commercial officer. "Testing locked up in traditional health-care systems."

 

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