DAY FOUR: The Conclusion (To read Day One, please go HERE. To read Day Two, please go HERE, to read Day Three please go HERE.) Originally intended as a 3-part blog (test results would be returned in 2–3 days they said), the documenting of my experience of getting tested for COVID-19 would more accurately be re-titled “A Day (or Ten)…”. …
A Day (or Three) In the Life of a COVID-19 Testing Event – Day Three
DAY THREE: Results? (To read Day One, please go HERE. To read Day Two, please go HERE.) Well, this was to be the results blog. However, day three turned into day four, then day five…the test was Sunday morning, it’s now Friday and still nothing. They told me 2–3 days during my screening… Fortunately, I am still breathing ok, haven’t …
A Day (or Three) In the Life of a COVID-19 Testing Event – Day Two
DAY TWO: The Lab (To read Day One, please go HERE) OK, so I did it, I got tested. What now? That’s exactly what I wondered, so I put those awesome journalistic skills to work (from home of course) and set out to find out where my sample went and what was being done with it. A bit of Googling …
A Day (or Three) In the Life of a COVID-19 Testing Event – Day One
DAY ONE I’m 64 (okay, I’ll be 65 in a week or so), I had been feeling more fatigued than normal, and have had a dry, non-productive cough since probably January. Free community COVID-19 testing sites had been set up throughout the Atlanta area, with one close to me at Kennesaw State University. So I decided to see if I …
COVID-19 Testing by Wastewater Labs
The way forward for tracking the second wave? No, you aren’t dreaming this and you didn’t misread. Turns out wastewater treatment labs may have an important part to play in keeping tabs on the 2019 novel coronavirus as we look to reopen America — in fact the entire world. Authorities will want to be aware of any rise in cases, …
COVIDLiMS: Who’s Your PAHPA (Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act)?
What role can labs play in helping to meet the suddenly very relevant federal law recently re-authorized as the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act (PAHPAIA), Public Law №116–22? As we all continue to navigate through the unfamiliar waters of global lockdown, wearing of masks, gloves and other PPE, authorities are recognizing three main keys to successful pandemic …
COVID-19 Testing for the Physician Office Laboratory (POL)
Published by LabLynx, Inc. For information and help in ramping up to provide COVID-19 testing services, contact LabLynx, Inc., [email protected], or call 866-522-5969. Do I really want to get involved in testing for SARS-CoV-2? Why? Like it or not, physician or not, the current pandemic is already affecting you in some ways or others. And those physicians on the front …
LabLynx Joins the COVID-19 Fight by Introducing New COVIDLiMS
Unprecedented Ramp Up – Operational in Days Solves Web Submission/Reporting, COVID Handling and Workflows, CDC and FDA Reporting ATLANTA – LabLynx, Inc., long-time leader in enterprise-level cloud-hosted LIMS/LIS, today announced it has developed the world’s first LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) dedicated specifically to COVID-19 diagnostic testing. Called “COVIDLiMS”, its main features include, crucially, swift setup-to-live time: 2-5 days, including …
LIMS and COVID-19 Testing & Reporting
Known variously as coronavirus, COVID-19, novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV and SARS-CoV-2, the current global pandemic has been reported in 191 Countries and Territories around the world as of March 23, 2020, with over 350,000 confirmed cases and more than 15,000 deaths. These figures are being tracked in real time by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins …
Disaster Management for the Lab
Disaster management is, in a nutshell, about preparedness. Of course, the primary challenge in preparedness is anticipating just what it is for which you are preparing. In the case of disaster management, the possible scenarios vary a great deal – with some being virtually impossible to foresee – so any management plan faces potential failure right from the outset. Disaster …