Diagnostics firm says new Covid-19 test could be used 1 million times a week
Hologic, a maker of diagnostic tests, said Wednesday that it is launching a new test for Covid-19 and that it could produce 1 million of them a week, a pace that would significantly expand testing capacity in the United States.
Over the last seven days, the U.S. conducted 1.3 million tests, a rate that has remained about the same over time. Experts, including a group assembled by the Rockefeller Foundation and a team at Harvard, in an analysis for STAT, have said that millions of tests a week will be needed in order to sufficiently test for infections with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.
