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How Testing Backlogs Cloud the True Spread of Coronavirus

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Laboratories processing coronavirus testing are so backlogged that it’s taking several days to as long as a week to get results.

The delay is “too long,” Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health told NBC. Besides making daily or even weekly COVID-19 case reports uncertain, not getting test results back quicker could result in those who are positive in failing to quarantine.

SOURCE: The New York Times July 19, 2020