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CDC Grants Could Indicate Shift Toward More Federal Funds for Public Health Lab Construction
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The agency announced last month that it provided $175 million to seven states and localities to either build, expand, or renovate public health laboratory space.
The Association of Public Health Laboratories is directing member labs to focus sequencing efforts on S-gene dropouts for the next week.
FDA to Harmonize COVID-19 Data with New Terminology Codes
The agency plans to work with a number of partners to develop codes that will describe tests and results to standardize data collection.
The plan piggybacks on national influenza surveillance, testing flu-negative samples using the CDC's rRT-PCR test for the novel coronavirus.