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Nova Scotia microbiology lab ramps up testing: ‘It’s tiring, it’s busy and it never stops’
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As the need to test for cases of COVID-19 increases, the microbiology laboratory at the QEII Health Sciences Centre is boosting its capacity to do so, going from around 200 per day to twice that recently. “Our goal is to try to process every sample that comes into this lab in a 24-hour basis,” explained Charles Heinstein, technical manager of microbiology. “That may be a lofty goal but that is our goal.” A number of factors have contributed to the successful transition toward the ramped-up efforts that have seen the local lab become the testing facility for the entire province.
They include increased staffing of another eight to 10 workers and adopting an assembly-line approach to testing. The process is divided into four steps: processing,
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