Public health officials are hopeful that testing will — for the first time since the coronavirus arrived in New York City — no longer be a scarce resource. In the months that followed, the largest national laboratories dramatically increased their testing capacity, and New York City began to rely on them to handle most local testing. To public health officials, it was clear New York City needed more testing infrastructure that it could control — or at least rely on. “We’ll be getting into the scale of testing capacity that we feel is critical,” Dr. Varma said. “We knew that we really needed our testing capacity to be at the maximum in the fall,” Dr. Varma said.

Source: New York Times September 16, 2020 16:14 UTC