The Biden administration has started shipping monkeypox virus tests to commercial laboratories.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said it had shipped tests to five commercial laboratory companies.
The companies include Aegis Science, Labcorp, Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Quest Diagnostics and Sonic Healthcare.
The department said the labs would “dramatically expand testing capacity nationwide,” noting that health care providers would be able to use them by early July.
