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First, credit where it’s due. I ordered my “free” (more on that in a moment) COVID-19 tests from the federal government on Wednesday and they arrived via USPS on Saturday. The ordering process was seamless (for me, not so much for the unlucky folks living in apartments) and the website didn’t crash and burn like the infamous $840 million ObamaCare website debacle. So, congratulations to all the people who made that happen — the IT professionals, the folks who were in charge of logistics, and the oft-maligned USPS (which the left will tell you Trump “gutted”).I received four test kits,...

The Stanford [University] Health Care Clinical Virology Laboratory has launched a diagnostic test developed for the virus that causes COVID-19. The test is being used for patients at Stanford Health Care and Stanford Children’s Health suspected of being infected with the respiratory virus SARS-CoV-2...It is expected to deliver results within 12-24 hours. As with all currently available tests, it’s not yet clear how long a person needs to be infected before testing positive, or whether someone who's infected could be identified by the test before displaying symptoms. Clinical virologist Benjamin Pinsky, MD, PhD, associate professor of pathology and of infectious...