Covid-19 Lab Companies Retrench as Rapid Tests Take Over

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As more people use at-home Covid-19 tests or forgo screening, the wave spurred by the BA.5 subvariant has become harder to track

Rapid-test kits being assembled early this year at an Abbott facility in Illinois.More people checking for Covid-19 infections are choosing rapid, at-home antigen tests over PCR tests processed at laboratories, makingand helping to spur a retrenchment in testing capacity that labs had built up over the pandemic.

Capacity to process PCR tests in U.S. laboratories was about 62 million in July, half of what it was in March, researchers at the consulting firm Health Catalysts Group estimate, after demand dropped and government funding diminished. Some laboratories and diagnostic companies have laid off employees or reassigned them to other tasks.

 

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Or people are getting the summer flu

So no one ‘in charge’ accounted for the non reporting of results when offering all of those free at home test kits…

Harder to track…..a cold….shocking. 2.5 years later, and the media continues to push fear. It’s a way of life for them now. Jerks!

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