I heard through the grapevine that the feds deliberately put the brakes on UPMC working on their own COVID-19 testing. They've been an active hindrance. EDIT:

I heard through the grapevine that the feds deliberately put the brakes on UPMC working on their own COVID-19 testing. They've been an active hindrance. EDIT: via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette https://www.post-gazette.com/news/health/2020/03/14/covid-19-upmc-testing-coronavirus/stories/202003140044 https://www.post-gazette.com/news/health/2020/03/14/covid-19... At 20 patients a day (aiming for 100 by the end of the week) this isn't an industrial scale testing scheme, but given how slow we've been that's still a significant chunk of testing capacity and it would've been great for Pittsburgh to have access to it sooner.