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UPDATE -- Aegis Sciences Corporation announces participation in National Testing Action Plan for K-12 Schools to Safely Reopen April 07, 2021 16:13 ET | Source: Aegis Sciences Corporation Aegis Sciences Corporation NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Rockefeller Foundation announced an initiative on March 26, to provide guidance on testing for K-12 public schools to enable safe in-person learning. T he K-12 National Testing Action Program: Connecting Schools with the Nation’s Leading Testing Companies to Safely Reopen (NTAP) connects school...

Walgreens Increasing Covid-19 Testing Capacity WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - Drugstore chain Walgreens, and healthcare company Aegis Sciences Corp. are extending their relationship to perform fast and accurate COVID-19 diagnostic testing as Walgreens further expands COVID-19 drive-thru testing nationwide. The drive-thru locations are part of Walgreens' collaboration with the administration, federal health agencies, as well as state and local authorities for COVID-19 testing. Walgreens activated its first drive-thru testing site in the Chicago area on March 21, 2020. The companies are looking to boos...

Managing Editor Walgreens is expanding its partnership with Aegis Sciences for the performance of COVID-19 drive-thru testing. With the expansion, Walgreens will be able to offer additional testing capacity and speedy turnaround times at more than 3,000 locations this month, with plans for more growth in the coming months.  “The expanded collaboration between Aegis Sciences and Walgreens further builds on our commitment to improve access to COVID-19 testing in the communities we serve,” said Rick Gates, Walgreens senior vice president of pharmacy. “With vaccine inventory st...

Informationweek Aegis Sciences CIO on Scaling IT to Meet COVID Testing Demand Toxicology lab finds flexible way to scale up its resources that also cut costs while increasing the pace of testing. Faced with a need to ramp up its testing capacity fast amid the pandemic, Aegis Sciences crafted a plan to build up its IT infrastructure and platforms from within as well as by tapping third-party resources. The toxicology lab already provided services monitoring for drug interactions and other forensic lab sciences. The immediacy and scope of testing for COVID-19 came not long after Aegis began its...

Two dead after 26-year-old mother jumps off Tennessee overpass holding infant A ghastly event that took place in the early morning hours of Monday, January 4 just north of Jackson, Tennessee, highlights the degree of social misery and despair that has overtaken untold numbers of the world’s population amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Around 12:30 a.m. local time, callers from the gas station northeast of Jackson, in the western part of the state, informed 911 dispatchers that a woman had just tried to crash her car into a gas pump. Then, calls came in from witnesses saying the woman exited the v...