NIH continues to boost national COVID-19 testing capacity

(NIH/National Institute of Biomedical Imaging& Bioengineering) NIH today announced $129.3 million in scale-up and manufacturing support for a new set of COVID-19 testing technologies as part of its RADx initiative. NIH is awarding contracts to nine companies for technologies that include portable point-of-care tests for immediate results and high-throughput laboratories that can return results within 24 hours.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news