If you have a fever, develop virus symptoms, have recently traveled to an area with an ongoing spread of the virus or have come into contact with a person who is known to have it, call your doctor.
As coronavirus continues its spread across the U.S., public health officials are racing to make more test kits available and laboratories are working around the clock to test for the virus that has killed more than a dozen people in the U.S. and infected more than 230.
On Thursday, Vice President MIke Pence said the U.S. did not have enough tests"to meet what we anticipate will be the demand going forward." But the vice president said kits for 1.2 million should be available next week, the BBC reportedAccording to the Association of Public Health Laboratories, there are 69 local and state public health labs that cover 46 states, including Washington D.C.
Quest Diagnostics said it can start receiving samples from doctors for testing on Monday. It’s unclear if only select labs or all labs will be testing. The company didn’t immediately respond to USA TODAY’s request for comment.Now that state and some local public health labs have access to CDC test kits for coronavirus, they are conducting tests and reporting results directly to doctors, patients and the public.
Commercials tests “will be a tool in the toolbox of clinicians in clinics and in hospitals that they can use based on clinical suspicion to test their patients,” said Nancy Messonnier, director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.to develop its own test "During any infectious disease response, scientists all over the world work simultaneously to develop tests," she said."The CDC and WHO protocols were first published about a week apart."
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