A lab technician works to plate a specimen on an agar plate at the Clinical Molecular Microbiology Laboratory for UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.
S.
, on Friday, Aug.
28, 2020.
U.
S.
laboratories have struggled for months to secure desperately needed supplies for Covid-19 screenings, but another testing crisis is brewing.
Other workhorse supplies are back-ordered too, hampering labs’ ability to detect urinary tract infections, sexually-transmitted infections like chlamydia and gonorrhea, gastroenteritis – also known as the stomach flu – and more.
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