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hen infectious disease expert Crystal Icenhour began offering COVID-19 testing last month at her Aperiomics commercial laboratory in Sterling, Va., she expected a flood of orders. She could deliver results within 24 hours, compared to backlogged larger labs, and she could process up to 2,500 tests a week.
“We thought we’d be turning work away,” she said. Instead, she runs a few hundred tests a week, “a fraction of our capacity so far.”
Image: Crystal Icenhour, CEO of Aperiomics in Sterling, Va., say they can process about 2500 COVID-19 tests a week. Like many labs in the D.C. region, they are running at a fraction of capacity, despite an urgent need for more widespread testing. Daniella Cheslow / WAMU
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