NBC New York Up to 5,000 people per day will be tested for free at five locations around the city New York City will launch free COVID-19 antibody testing next week, with an eventual plan to let up to 140,000 people get tested to see if they’ve had the virus. Tests will be offered by […]
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The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo extended protections for New Yorkers unable to pay their rent, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio set an ambitious goal to test 140,000 people for coronavirus antibodies by early next month. The state’s daily death toll was 231. More on the latest pandemic-related […]
NYC Press Office Appointment-only antibody testing will be offered in Morrisania, East New York, Upper Manhattan, Concord, and Long Island City beginning next week NEW YORK—Mayor Bill de Blasio today announced expanded antibody testing for New Yorkers. Through a partnership with BioReference labs, the City will conduct its own antibody survey at community testing sites in the five boroughs […]
Rite Aid Testing sites will nearly triple with addition of 46 sites on May 11Expanded testing criteria includes asymptomatic adults CAMP HILL, Pa. (May 7, 2020) – Rite Aid (NYSE: RAD) will significantly expand its COVID-19 testing effort with the addition of 46 no-charge testing sites, most of which will operate through its stores’ drive-through […]
CNBC Dr. Jon Cohen, Bioreference Laboratories, on getting the coronavirus tests where they need to be. Click here for original post on CNBC
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OPKO Health’s BioReference Laboratories in Partnership with New York State Initiates Testing for COVID-19 Antibodies
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BioReference will broaden availability of serological antibody tests to states, hospitals and healthcare organizations throughout the United States ELMWOOD PARK, N.J., April 29, 2020 – BioReference Laboratories, Inc., an OPKO Health company (NASDAQ:OPK), announced that beginning today it will offer antibody blood tests to detect an immune response after infection with the COVID-19 virus. Antibody testing […]
Reuters * OPKO HEALTH’S BIOREFERENCE LABORATORIES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NEW YORK STATE INITIATES TESTING FOR COVID-19 ANTIBODIES * BIOREFERENCE LABORATORIES – BEGINNING TODAY, WILL OFFER ANTIBODY BLOOD TESTS TO DETECT IMMUNE RESPONSE AFTER INFECTION WITH COVID-19 VIRUS * BIOREFERENCE LABORATORIES – TO OFFER ANTIBODY BLOOD TESTS TO DETECT IMMUNE RESPONSE AFTER INFECTION WITH COVID-19 VIRUS […]
CNN President Donald Trump said Monday that he is confident the US is conducting enough coronavirus testing to begin rebooting the economy, declaring at the White House press briefing that “testing is not going to be a problem at all.”But hospitals, clinics and point-of-care medical centers across the country continue to grapple with critical shortages in testing supplies that have limited […]
New York State’s Website New York State is Now Conducting Average of 30,000 Diagnostic Tests Per Day Results of FDNY and NYPD Antibody Testing Study Show 17.1 Percent of FDNY and 10.5 Percent of NYPD Have Antibodies State is Expanding Antibody Testing Today for 1,000 Transit Workers Directs MTA to Issue Full Plan by Tomorrow […]
Rite Aid Adults exhibiting symptoms eligible for diagnostic screening at no cost CAMP HILL, Pa. (April 28, 2020) – Rite Aid (NYSE: RAD) has expanded COVID-19 testing criteria to include all individuals 18 and older exhibiting any of the following symptoms: fever, cough, shortness of breath, chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore […]
