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wishstar

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1. I attribute NC's recent downtick to reduced testing due to lab backups
Wed Jul 29, 2020, 09:00 AM
Jul 2020

In my county alone the community drive thru testing which had been 850 per week was halted last week because the lab could not handle the volume plus lack of local staffing and supplies so the only testing right now is at doctors' offices and hospital. Prior to last week, the cars at the 3 community drive in sites were backed up and being turned away when the sites ran out of tests.

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