Documents show major lab's coronavirus tests took days longer than publicly stated
Coronavirus testing results from one of the nation's top labs were taking days longer to complete than the lab's publicly reported turnaround time, according to internal company records obtained by CNN.
On Monday, in a statement posted on its website, Quest Diagnostics said that average turnaround time for results for all patients was five days. But internal Quest Materials obtained by CNN dated the day before state that the total average turnaround time for results was 8.4 days.
Asked about the apparent discrepancy, a Quest spokesperson said the publicly reported number represented a forward-looking, "expected" figure for how long patient samples received that day would take to turnaround. The number did not reflect the actual time it took the company to get results on samples it had already tested.
In essence, the public number was a projection while the internal number reflected the reality of how long results delivered to healthcare providers on Sunday had taken on average.
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