(CNN) Several firefighters who responded to a nursing home in Washington state that's at the epicenter of the US outbreak will have to be in quarantine longer because lab bottlenecks are delaying test results. Firefighters who responded to calls from the Life Care Center in Kirkland were swabbed for testing samples that were sent to the state testing lab -- but there was such a bottleneck at the lab that at least seven samples expired, a first responder familiar with the situation told CNN. "The response has been putrid," the first responder told CNN. "Tests for firefighters, police officers, husbands, wives and children are being left to expire while we know the disease is spreading," the source told CNN. "This is a matter of public safety and the response is failing.

Source: CNN March 10, 2020 21:56 UTC