https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20200...in-palm-springs

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Quest Diagnostics joined national testing efforts last week alongside LabCorp and has vowed to ramp up the supply of test kits quickly.

“We expect to be able to perform 10,000 tests a day by the end of next week,” Quest announced Saturday. “The industry expects its capacity to be increased to more than 20,000 tests per day.”



They later say that they theoretically have capacity to process 280,000 test samples (daily? nationwide?) but that they lack the staff to take all the samples from patients, and the lab staff to process them.

A sample of what the Coronavirus battle is like in my county, with a population of about 1.5 million people.

If they had swabs to drive-through test 20,000 a day, they could test the entire county population in 75 days. But they probably don't have the staff to actually do that.