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Published on: April 6, 2019
Laboratory surge capacity and pandemic influenza
Martin I Meltzer1, K Mills McNeill, Joseph D Miller
1Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Mailstop D59, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA. mmeltzer@cdc.gov
Abstract:
In this issue, Crawford et al. describe their experiences running a clinical diagnostic laboratory during the first 3 weeks of the influenza A pandemic (H1N1) 2009 outbreak (1). During the early weeks of the outbreak, their laboratory, which serves 15 hospitals and affiliated physician practices in the greater New York City metropolitan area, experienced an approximately 8x increase in respiratory virus testing, reaching a maximum of about 900 samples processed in 1 day.
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