SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – California’s new $25 million coronavirus testing lab is expected to revolutionize testing. The $1. 7 billion state contract with PerkinElmer requires the diagnostic company to recover the lab’s effects in 24 to 48 hours.
The lab commissioned this week. So, how’d it go?
CBS13 investigative journalist Julie Watts’ circle of 4 relatives was one of the first to test the new lab. Its effects vary widely.
Julie and her daughter received the effects of their COVID-19 in just over 48 hours, the effects of their son were inconclusive and her husband has not yet gained its effects, now five days after taking it (at the time of writing).
The two out of 4 who won the effects of their COVID-19 won them on Wednesday night. The effects came via email just over 48 hours after the s, or 2. 1 days.
This is nearly twice the time the state reported “patients waiting for test results” statewide before the new lab went live.
According to the California Department of Health’s daily “COVID-19 Data” lacheck press releases, “During the week of October 11-17, the average wait time for patients to check the effects is 1. 2 days. the state for the following weeks in October 1. 3 days.
CBS13 shared our findings with Mark Pandori, director of the Nevada Public Health Laboratory and director of the San Francisco And Alameda County Public Health Laboratory.
“Nationally, two commas a day is a very intelligent response time given the very, very important test call right now. It’s also a new lab,” Pandori said. It can be just an era of adjustment. “
In reaction to our results, the CDPH told CBS13: “The average processing time for testing in the new lab is 24 hours. This comes with the time it takes to send the samples to the lab. “
The CDPH added: “The lab won 2,030 samples on November 2 and 854 effects were sent in 24 hours and the remaining 1,176 were shipped in less than 39 hours. “
What about the inconclusive results?
Pandori says that, in general, an inconclusive result means that the control was performed at least twice and was inconclusive.
“We get inconclusive results, all labs get them, it’s just that they’re weird,” Pandori said.
Please note that due to the circle of immunosuppressed relatives, the Watts family circle has been tested at this facility at least twice a month since July and this is the first time one of them has had an inconclusive result.
“Then, as an expert in this field, would you be involved in this being the first inconclusive one we’ve ever seen?[It’s] the same facility, the same staff. The difference is the lab. “Watts asked Pandori.
“Not if you have one,” he says. But if we start to see a lot of inconclusive results, it may be another story simply because they’re weird. “
However, after returning to get some other check on Friday after the inconclusive result, Watts learned that they were not the only circle of relatives to have inconclusive effects this week from the new lab.
In reaction to your child’s uncertainty, the CDPH said, “There are many reasons why a check may not be conclusive. We speculated about what happened in this specific incident, but we inspired those Americans to perform additional verification. “
The state did not respond to CBS13’s request for the total number of inconclusive effects since the new lab entered service on Monday. We’ll update this story when we get this state data.