Achieving Widespread Availability of Timely and Efficient COVID-19 Testing   [open pdf - 0B]

From the Document: "Efficient, reliable, widely deployed diagnostic tests are critical to our ongoing response to the current COVID-19 [coronavirus disease] epidemic, and our ability to prevent future large outbreaks or epidemic spread of this disease. In the near term, working out large-scale diagnostic testing using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test capabilities and point-of-care (POC) tests that are beginning to come online is key to the COVID-19 response. While testing capabilities are now scaling up, challenges remain."