Inside a Verily coronavirus testing site: How it works, from screening to diagnosis

The Google-affiliated company takes us behind the scenes.
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Inside a Verily coronavirus testing site: How it works, from screening to diagnosis
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Verily, the medical company owned by Google parent Alphabet, has been ramping up its capacity to test people for coronavirus. The company is now offering a video look inside the process.

The initiative got off to a rocky start after President Donald Trump overstated the readiness and abilities of the "Google website" to facilitate testing. The first iteration of the program quickly reached capacity when it launched last week. Monday, Verily and the government announced that it had opened two more testing sites, and increased capacity by 20 times.

Without a mass coordinated testing campaign on the federal level, testing for coronavirus has fallen to state governments and private industry. That's by no means ideal, but at least it's something.

Topics Health COVID-19

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Rachel Kraus

Rachel Kraus is a Mashable Tech Reporter specializing in health and wellness. She is an LA native, NYU j-school graduate, and writes cultural commentary across the internetz.


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