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Hamilton County to lease Baylor School lab for coronavirus testing
March 25th, 2020 | by Sarah Grace Taylor
A local preparatory school lab will begin diagnostic testing for COVID-19 Thursday morning, cutting the local coronavirus disease test result time from around a week to just a matter of hours.
In a unique agreement struck between Hamilton County and Baylor School, the lab will test COVID-19 swabs from local hospital staff and patients starting at around 65 tests per day. Within about a week, the lab's team of research scientists plans to churn out nearly 300 test results per day — more than the county has collected in total from public and private labs in the past two weeks combined.
"It's truly a remarkable thing that Baylor is doing," County Mayor Jim Coppinger told the Times Free Press on Wednesday, after Hamilton County commissioners voted to approve the deal. "It's the best example I can think of where a private and public partnership will do something to help the whole community be safer."
Coppinger said Baylor instructors Elizabeth Forrester, a biochemist with a doctorate in cancer biology, and Dawn Richards, a molecular microbiologist with a doctoral degree in oceanography, demonstrated they were capable of providing quicker COVID-19 testing within the county, which has been struggling to get test results from overburdened labs across the region.
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http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2020/mar/25/hamilton-county-lease-baylor-school-lab-coronavirus-testing/519038/
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