Many Americans worried about contracting COVID-19 often must wait in long lines and several days for results.
The federal government wants to expand testing on several fronts, including more “point of care” machines that can deliver results in minutes at a clinic or doctor's office. The National Institutes of Health has launched a $1.5 billion, Shark Tank-style competition called Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics to bring capacity up to 6 million daily tests by December.
"We don’t design tests normally for people who aren’t experiencing symptoms," said Kelly Wroblewski, the Association of Public Health Laboratories' director of infectious disease."It’s not normally who you target when you’re planning to test people." Over the following week, she isolated herself from others. She felt better by the time she received her negative results eight and a half days after she was tested.
Outbreaks among MLB teams such as the Miami Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals prompted the league to cancel games, adjust schedules and quarantine players until testing showed the teams cleared the threat. The goal: prevent infections from spreading to other teams.Dr. Rajaie Batniji is co-founder and chief health officer at Collective Health, a San Francisco firm that helps companies manage health insurance benefits.
Urban Sitter, a San Francisco-based service that matches families with child care providers, began using the Collective Go recently. Families and sitters wanted the service as a way to learn about each other's COVID-19 status, arrange testing and track daily health status. said Wroblewski, with the Association of Public Health Laboratories. "It does make it challenging to develop a thoughtful, strategic plan when you have this fragmented system that serves all these different goals.
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