“But testing capabilities are absolutely essential to managing a pandemic.
Alan Wells, medical director of the UPMC Clinical Laboratories, said in a statement. “Developing this test for a never-before-seen virus in the midst of a pandemic was a tremendous challenge, even for our academic medical center with its long history of such developments,” Dr. Later Saturday, health officials held another news conference to announce that two Pittsburgh residents have tested positive for the coronavirus. UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh laid out the details at a news conference.
In an effort to speed up the testing for people with symptoms of the coronavirus that causes covid-19, the region’s largest health system announced Saturday it has created its own in-house test.
