But it would take a while to confirm.
The only lab analyzing tests for coronavirus was in California, and it took more than a week turnaround as it became inundated with tests and supplies were difficult to find.
Other laboratories soon came online, but they too became swamped.
“You can only do as much as you can handle,” Jessica Gatulis, manager of business in lab operations at UMass Memorial, said Monday. “It was the same problem, they couldn’t keep up and ran out of things.”
Meanwhile, patients were backing up in the local emergency rooms awaiting test results before they could be moved into an inpatient bed or sent home with orders to quarantine.
But it would take a while to confirm.
The only lab analyzing tests for coronavirus was in California, and it took more than a week turnaround as it became inundated with tests and supplies were difficult to find.
Other laboratories soon came online, but they too became swamped.
“You can only do as much as you can handle,” Jessica Gatulis, manager of business in lab operations at UMass Memorial, said Monday. “It was the same problem, they couldn’t keep up and ran out of things.”
Meanwhile, patients were backing up in the local emergency rooms awaiting test results before they could be moved into an inpatient bed or sent home with orders to quarantine.