{"id":14033,"date":"2020-03-25T11:19:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T15:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=14033"},"modified":"2020-08-12T13:24:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T17:24:07","slug":"georgias-medical-schools-are-processing-coronavirus-test-faster-than-commercial-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=14033","title":{"rendered":"Georgia&#8217;s medical schools are processing coronavirus tests faster than commercial labs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Georgia\u2019s two U.S. senators are asking the Trump administration to steer more of the available COVID-19 testing resources to Georgia\u2019s academic medical centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler explain that the medical schools at Augusta University and Emory University are returning test results faster than Georgia\u2019s commercial labs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile the commercial laboratories in our state have turnaround times in the range of two to six days, our academic medical centers have been able to return medical test results in a matter of hours,\u201d the letter stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Augusta University President <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/county\/Brooks\"   title=\"Brooks\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"833\">Brooks<\/a> Keel said the university\u2019s Medical College of Georgia is using a variety of innovative approaches to speed up test results, including setting up two drive-through test facilities that are conducting more than 100 tests per day and expanding a virtual screening app to include more of the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is why we\u2019re here,\u201d Keel said. \u201cIt\u2019s times like these that we, as the state\u2019s academic medical center, step up and lead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both Augusta University and Emory have developed their own tests for coronavirus and are actively processing results each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia\u2019s two U.S. senators are asking the Trump administration to steer more of the available COVID-19 testing resources to Georgia\u2019s academic medical centers. In a letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler explain that the medical schools at Augusta University and Emory University are returning test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":14034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7286],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}