..."Huh? The lab won’t be ready for another 2 weeks or the tests won’t be ready for 2 weeks? Either way, hardly effective for those today."
That dad and his daughter sent back from Rady's to quarantine at Miramar received their results much quicker. Within days if you make inference...now they are telling us their isn't any uniformity in the test result times? Hmmmm
I’ve seen what it takes to get a nucleic acid detection test going. It would take time to get the infrastructure in place to consistently run tests according to accepted standards. Honestly, getting such a lab up and running in two weeks sounds like a miracle. You need qualified equipment (has to be qualified “in place”), validated protocols (that is, you have to show reproducibility in results using the same samples, with different equipment and different operators over different days), and the personnel have to be trained. The chemistry of the test may be variable depending on your reagent suppliers.
Though the general public is used to hearing about these kinds of tests, it is NOT trivial to set them up!