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Fox 5 News NEW YORK – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has finally given the green light to New York state‘s 28 public and private labs to begin manual, semi-automated, and automated testing for the novel coronavirus, the governor announced Friday. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said his administration has been asking the FDA for clearance for several weeks and blamed […]

“The single most important thing we can do to combat and contain the novel coronavirus is test for it,” said Gov. Andrew Cuomo People Magazine As information about the coronavirus pandemic rapidly changes, PEOPLE is committed to providing the most recent data in our coverage. Some of the information in this story may have changed after publication. […]

CNBC, Power Lunch Dr. Jon Cohen, BioReference Laboratories Executive Chairman, joins ‘Power Lunch’ to discuss the launch of drive-thru testing and how quickly it will produce results. Click here for original post on CNBC, Power Lunch

genomeweb NEW YORK – Opko’s BioReference Laboratories announced Friday it will provide testing for a drive-through facility for SARS-CoV-2 sample collection in partnership with the New York State Department of Health. The drive-through facility is in New Rochelle, New York, which has been the epicenter of the state’s COVID-19 outbreak. The facility started testing Friday […]

New York Post New York’s first coronavirus drive-through testing center opened Friday morning in New Rochelle — the Westchester County town with the highest cluster of COVID-19 cases in the United States. “This is drive-thru testing — something I didn’t hear of last week, but we’re doing this week,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. “Drive-through testing means people […]

The Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state opened its first drive-through coronavirus testing center Friday in hard-hit New Rochelle, aiming to break a testing bottleneck that Gov. Andrew Cuomo called a crisis. The six-lane testing center will soon handle 500 people a day, with priority given to residents of the New York […]

Cuomo said Friday during the opening of a New Rochelle drive-thru facility that will test for Covid-19 Crain’s New York Business New York state could be dealing with virus response for six months or more, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday during the opening of a New Rochelle drive-thru facility that will test for Covid-19. “I don’t believe this is […]

South Florida Business Journal BioReference Laboratories, a subsidiary of Miami-based Opko Health (Nasdaq: OPK), has begun accepting specimen from health care providers throughout the U.S. to test whether or not their patients have COVID-19. The lab launched testing Friday, expecting to start with about 1,000 to 2,000 tests a day. BioReference expects to eventually ramp […]