“Amid shortages around the country, the University of Toledo Medical Center announced Tuesday its pathology lab has started testing samples for coronavirus in an effort to speed up the time it takes to process results locally.

The testing, which began Monday with a beta-test batch of 21 samples, takes up to 48 hours for results. The lab at UTMC, the former Medical College of Ohio hospital, has the capability to process up to 180 samples per day through two batches of 90 samples each. The lab is the first in northwest Ohio equipped to test for coronavirus. Officials hope it will drastically cut the time it takes to process a test locally.”

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