Coronavirus Testing

Besides the positive steps toward a vaccine, medical experts are also making encouraging progress on testing and treatment of COVID-19. So even though coronavirus outbreaks continue to litter the U.S. map, NBCLX’s Noah Pransky presents three good signs about the pandemic that we can all hang some hope on.

Dozens of U.S. colleges are announcing plans to test students for the coronavirus this fall, but their strategies vary widely

The Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency approval a new approach to coronavirus testing in which several people’s samples are tested together in batches instead of individually, speeding up the process

Results from the new rapid test can be ready in as little at 15 minutes, the city said, though admitted it’s not entirely as accurate as the other tests which take far longer to get results from. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff.

At CityMD, a popular chain of urgent care centers, results used to be available in one to two days — now patients must wait seven days

Testing in the tri-state that used to take just a couple days has now been delayed a week or more due to the spike in other parts of the country. NBC New York’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

As coronavirus infections explode in states like Arizona and Florida, people in communities of color are fighting to get tested

A testing strategy that helped fight HIV could offer the United States a window into the severity of the coronavirus outbreak, NBC News reported. The White House Coronavirus Task Force is considering sample pooling, also known as pooled testing, as a way to ramp up local authorities’ ability to determine the extent of the infection in their areas, Dr. Anthony…

At a congressional hearing on the Trump administration’s coronavirus response, Dr. Anthony Fauci testified that success in fighting the virus has been largely dependent on different regions’ willingness to follow the coronavirus task force guidelines and warned that the coming weeks will be critical in slowing the spread. Fauci also testified that he was never ordered to slow down testing,...

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany denied that President Trump officially ordered a slowdown of coronavirus testing in response to the president saying at Saturday’s campaign rally that “When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people, you’re going to find more cases, so I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down,...

It won’t be a normal summer for campers in New Jersey with measures aimed at slowing the novel coronavirus in place when summer camps open in July. Pools in the Garden State will open later in June.

That’s about 25% of the staff who work at the Iowa plant.

Rosie Perez and Chris Rock join Gov. Cuomo to discuss Coronavirus in New York.

Worldwide demand for COVID-19 testing could potentially threaten supply levels of certain chemicals needed to process the tests. Now, a Bay Area company hopes its tiny invention will solve a potentially massive dilemma.

Get caught up with everything that happened today in the fight against Coronavirus.

After two months, nonessential stores and construction can resume in New Jersey. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

Two months into the pandemic, coronavirus testings have become more accessible across the tri-state area. Not everyone who wants to get tested for COVID-19 were able to because of low supplies and states had to prioritize people who are at higher risk of contracting the disease, such as seniors and those who are immunocompromised, and essential workers. Now, more and…

We found out that New Jersey is one of ten states sending police and fire departments the names and addresses of positive patients. There’s an obvious privacy concern. Erica Byfield reports.