Pennsylvania’s Department of Health now has the capacity to test for coronavirus and can perform six such tests a day.

Until Monday, the state needed to send any samples it wanted tested to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, which meant a two- to three-day wait for results.  State turnaround will be 24 hours.

One by one, states are developing this capacity and hospitals and health systems, too, will no doubt be doing the same in the coming weeks.  First, though, their testing must be approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration.  Until then, they will have to rely on the state lab in Chester County.

Learn more about Pennsylvania’s new ability to perform coronavirus tests in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review article “Pennsylvania Health Department begins testing for coronavirus.”