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Shortage article from this morning ...

Clinical laboratories in Western New York racing to find new ways of testing for the novel coronavirus face the same problem many people find at the supermarket these days.

A dearth of products, especially nasal swabs, transport tubes and reagents – substances used in chemical testing – has handcuffed efforts to process more coronavirus tests in the county, said Dr. John E. Tomaszewski, professor and chairman of pathology and anatomical sciences in the University at Buffalo’s Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

“Like there’s a run on toilet paper, there’s a run on all these things,” said Tomaszewski, who also serves as chief of service, pathology and laboratory medicine for Kaleida Health. “We really need access to reagents. That’s the A No. 1 thing.”

https://buffalonews.com/2020/03/30/labs-scrambling-to-test-for-coronavirus-face-same-obstacle-dearth-of-supplies/