Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson is the latest official to file a lawsuit against the company. Ferguson accuses the Center for Covid Control of “providing invalid, false and delayed COVID-19 test results to Washingtonians, or sometimes providing no results at all.
“The company’s unlawful practices included storing tests in garbage bags for over a week rather than properly refrigerating them, and backdating sample collection dates so that stale samples would still be processed,” according to a news release from Ferguson’s office. Ferguson also claimed employees reported the company told them to “lie to patients on a daily basis” when Washington state residents complained that their results were delayed.