Friday Q&A: Matthew Binnicker, Mayo Clinic’s director of clinical virology, talks COVID-19, monkeypox testing

Friday Q&A: Matthew Binnicker, Mayo Clinic's director of clinical virology, talks COVID-19, monkeypox testing With cases of both viruses rising across the U.S., clinical laboratories are bringing in staff to ramp up monkeypox testing, even as demand falls for clinical diagnostics of COVID-19. Elise Reuter MedTech Dive

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The Mayo Clinic is one of five commercial laboratories tapped by the Department of Health and Human Services to offer the CDC’s orthopoxvirus test. Although demand is currently low, it’s expected to increase along with case numbers...