Sacramento has been plagued by bottlenecks in its COVID-19 testing system that have reduced capacity and slowed results, especially during the summer surge.
in late July, Chief Executive Steve Rusckowski explained why the company was struggling to keep up with demand despite its rapidly increased testing capacity.
Beyond catering to regions with high numbers of COVID-19 cases, Rusckowski said Quest was also responding to the testing needs of patients scheduled for surgery, high-risk residents at places like nursing homes and prisons, employers testing their workers, and universities requiring tests for returning students.Smaller regional operations have popped up to ease the demand. Before the pandemic, Folsom, Calif.
“It was a huge front-end financial investment — millions of dollars,” said Hether Ide, a company vice president. StemExpress now has the capacity to process 10,000 tests per day, though it generally averages that in a week, Ide said. A surge in demand was only the first problem. That led to a second major bottleneck: a shortage of supplies needed to process the tests.
In early July, Sacramento temporarily closed five of its county-funded testing sites because its testing partner, UC Davis Health, couldAdvertisement
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