New York State’s Wadsworth Lab And NYC’s Public-Health Lab Win Go-Ahead For COVID-19 Testing

The US FDA on 29 February approved New York State’s and New York City’s combined Emergency Use Authorization request to conduct coronavirus testing at the state’s Wadsworth Center laboratory in Albany, and its NYC public-health department-based lab. Both sites are CLIA-certified to proceed using COVID-19 laboratory-developed tests, the FDA’s Tim Stenzel said during a 2 March webinar on virus testing.