San Mateo Co. drops contract with COVID testing company plagued with long delays

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San Mateo County drops contract with COVID testing company, Virus Geeks, following ABC7 News I-Team investigation.

In another PPE mishap in the Bay Area, more than half a million hospital gowns have been left outside a Bay Area hospital."Could you confirm to me how many scientists were working in the lab?"Zhang disputes the bags amount to more than approximately 6,000 tests, but the company confirmed none of the tests pictured in the red bags were ever processed.

DiaCarta clarified the samples pictured in the red bags on the floor weren't there for seven days but stored in a refrigerator before the picture was taken. The company added they informed Virus Geeks to come get the unprocessed samples."Just prior to them coming to pick up the samples from us, we took them out of the refrigerator and out to the loading dock, so that they could take it and load it into their cars," said Vairavan."Unfortunately, we didn't take that picture.

The I-Team spoke to Rabit Rexhepi, one of DiaCarta's clinical lab assistants, who said he carried the Virus Geeks bags from the refrigerator back to the loading zone on the evening of Sunday, Jan. 16. "When it's not finished, we put them in these big refrigerators as you can see," Rexhepi said showing us his routine via Zoom.

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Have StephanieABC7 interview her mother Congresswoman Jackie Speier CA's 14th district about COVID test shortages & infrastructure failures on her watch inc. 14,000 missing tests and millions of damaged PPE in San Mateo, her district. That's a real story ABC7now. She blocks us.

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