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West Virginia University's New Rapid Development COVID-19 Test Lab Proving Successful with Students

By Connect-Bridgeport Staff on January 21, 2021

According to MetroNews, the West Virginia University Rapid Development Laboratory may be relatively new, but it has streamlined coronavirus testing and changed how students have returned to campus.
 
The lab is the byproduct of a $3 million investment announced by Gov. Jim Justice last year; funding from the CARES Act went toward an automated robotic system capable of processing hundreds of polymerase chain reaction samples at one time. The technique is a more reliable method of testing individual samples for the coronavirus, but it takes longer to find results.
 
“Our turnaround times for a lot of people weren’t just within 24 hours,” said Rob Alsop, WVU’s vice president of strategic initiatives. “We actually had people that tested in the morning and we had results by the evening, and for a PCR test that’s unheard of.”
 
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Editor's Note: File photo from earlier testing done at WVU.

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