by Amanda D’Ambrosio | MedPage Today | May 18, 2022
Northshore Clinical Labs’ PCR test was ultimately found to have missed 96% of positive COVID-19 cases on a university campus in Nevada last year, but early concerns raised by state epidemiologists went unheeded as the company aggressively pursued government customers, ProPublica reported.
When students from a Nevada school district began receiving conflicting test results from their COVID antigen and PCR tests last winter, Heather Kerwin, epidemiology program manager in Washoe County, raised red flags about a potential problem with Northshore Clinical Labs.… Read the rest