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To test during a pandemic, it takes an airline
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June 20, 2020
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6:40Now PlayingFighting coronavirus will take millions of tests per day. For Quest Diagnostics, providing timely results takes a littleseen logistics chain that includes couriers, an overnight sorting of bagged specimens and an airline tying it all together. This is how specimens like covid19 swabs and blood move from a testing center to a lab for processing using a fleet of vehicles and aircraft. The medical laboratory business is big businessQuest has about 4,000 couriers making 80,000 stops a day, and its own airline of 23 planes serving 63 cities a night. The planes fly all night to scoop up specimens around the country and deliver them to labs so patients and doctors can get results the next day. Read moreSPECIAL OFFERTo thank you for your support, here’s a deal on a Washington Post digital subscription$29 for one year
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