labcorp announced it ramped up at home test for covid-19. adam, good to see you. >> good morning.ing me back again. a pleasure to be here. we are making significant progress on testing and i'm thankful to all our labcorp employees that are enabling are labs to be opened seven days ago. yesterday we announced to expanding our home kits. we launched to it people that were either first responders or health care professionals on the front lines. we did that because we didn't have enough kits to roll it out more broadly the good news is now we have over 200,000 kits available and yesterday we announced it is available for anybody that meets the cdc criteria they can go online and order one. we ship to it their house. they ship it back to us and we run the test >> adam, so let's just talk about this test in particular and then i want to talk about the tests that take place in a doctor he's setting. but this test, are you supposed to take this test if you have symptoms, if you're asymptomatic >> the test is for anybody that has symptoms but also people that are asymptomatic that may have

our meat packing plants and nursing homes, we are testing, we're connecting them with testing at labcorp and quest, as part of syndromour plan to surgd contain outbreaks when we have syndromic cases. we'll be progressively moving from mitigation back to containment, outbreak, circle, contain, and control situations like that. >> i don't think anybody expects that we're all going to be given the same health benefits as the president of the united states, the commander in chief, of course. but i do think, if we're trying to get our economy open, let's take schools, as an example. i have two children. if my two children went back to school in september and every student, every teacher, every person who worked at that school were tested before they could go in, and then the ones who tested positive would be isolated, and then a test like that happened, i don't know, every month, i would feel a lot more secure about sending my kids to school if there was that kind of aggressive testing for that school. now, i'm not saying every american should be tested every morning, of course not. but every

to require to test suite for nursing home staff, we have worked with commercial labs bio reference labcorp to get additional capacity in the state has reserved 30,000 tests per day to be dedicated just to nursing home staff so that is 210000 tests -- week just for nursing homes. there is not the capacity, which is why they have to go to the drive-through and if they can't accommodate the standard on their own, work with us to use some of the capacity we have reserved through the free commercial labs. gov. cuomo: wadsworth is one lab, the state lab. there are 300 labs that operate in the state. wadsworth, we are proud of, it is a state lab but there are 300 labs and we need all 300 labs operational to meet this volume. the only way you get the volume up this high is all those labs are at maximum capacity. could come anywhere near this, even with all 300 labs working and doing seven days a week, you are still not at the those 300 labs say they will have a trouble in the backend. >> considering the public belth, over the calculation to open the beaches? gov. cuomo: i'm trying to work in confo

there's moderna and labcorp also >> moderna loves press releases. they're fabulous at that when you fast track something from the fda, all it means is the illness is bad it's not like, hey, they just got some approval to do something fast bristol-myers, dr. caforio is a level-headed guy he talked about alliances among drug companies to get a vaccine. this celgene deal is unrecognized this stock sells at ten times earnings it had 8% growth that's the kind of thing people say, geez, the market is overvalued bristol-myers! this company is unbelievably cheap. i know it's chic to come on and say the whole thing is a big "house of cards. how do they explain the fact that there's a 3% yield with a decent balance sheet that sells at 10 times earnings with 8% growth and it will get faster? i find the ignorance of people who want to slam this, they should look at individual stocks there are stocks overvalued. bristol is not one of them >> no, but in some ways as the market noted -- granted, in your opinion, it's cheap, but it's up 33% over the last year, jim.

also you mentioned other agencies with labcorp, with amo americorps, the census bureau, developing to increase state capacity. some states reactivated the national guard. i agree with you. i think it's going to be a significant expert to build a contact tracing we need. it will be state by state but need to be augments probably in your state from what you just said five to ten fold. we're there to work with the states to help them accomplish that needs to be in place before september. >> we need to move on. next question. >> thank you. >> thank you, is now murkowski. i don't want to cut anyone off but we have eight more senators with five-minute rounds and it's 12:30. so i would like to request that the senators and the witnesses su suss sifrpgt questions and try to stay within five minutes would be appreciated. senator passal? >> thank you, mr. chair and members and witnesses today. please pass our thanks along to all of the hard working men and women in your agencies who i know have been working virtually around the clock to improve our response and keep americans safe. mr. chair, i

these other agencies, with labcorp -- i mean come americorps, the census bureau, to work together and have the state develop their capacity. some states have re-abdicated sewer, national guard, while they begin to do this. i agree with you, it's going to be a significant effort to build the contact tracing capacity that we need in this nation. it'll be state-by-state, but it's going need to be augmented. in your state, from what you just said, 5-10 fold. we are there to work with the states to help them accomplish. that needs to get in place before september. >> we need to move onto th the t question. >> thank you. >> thank you, senator murkowski. i don't want to put any senator off, but we have eight more senators who have five-minute rounds, and it's 12:30. so i would like to request that the senators and the witnesses 'assistant questions and try to stay within 5 minutes. we appreciate it. senator? >> thank you, mr. chair. thank you and the ranking question dominic senator for having this hearing, and thank you to our witnesses today. please pass our thanks to the hard women and me

there are very high through-put tests done at big reference labs like labcorp and quest. there tests you heard us talking about cepheid, delivering two million tests to rural americans and places that don't have very large infrastructure. you've also seen the abbott test we talked about. there it is on the left of the president. delivering about 1.4 million tests as a point of care test. you get the result within five to 15 minutes. we have deployed over 235,000 of these tests to the state public health laboratories in every state of this country, to make sure that that point of care testing capability is there to research outbreaks like in nursing homes or in certain industrial capacities. and well over 90,000 to the indian health service so they can test at a point of care in remote locations. the president also talked about a first this class test. this is listed as antiagain baste test. very important, you heard ambassador birx talked about this many times, antigent testing although many complex less than the nucleic acid. quidel had it authorized by the fda. as the p

they're very high throughput tests that are done at big reference labs like labcorp and quest.ery importantly, they're also tests, and you've heard us talk about sepian delivering 2 million tests, vitally important to rural americans and places that do not have large infrastructure. you've also seen abbott tests, there it is on the left of the president, delivering about 1.4 million tests as a point of care test. you get the result within 5 to 15 minutes. we have deployed over 235,000 of these tests to the state public health laboratories in every state of this country to make sure that that point of care testing capability is there to research outbreaks like in nursing homes or in certain industrial capacities. and well over 90,000 to the indian health service so they can test at a point of care in remote locations. the president also talked about a new first in class test. it's listed there as an antigen based test. this is very important. and you've heard ambassador birx talk about this multiple times, because antigen testing, although complex, is much less complex than the

this comes as two major testing companies, quest diagnostics and labcorp, are rolling out expanded testingn our collaboration with the journalism company clear health costs, anna werner has been looking those programs. anna, what have you learned? >> reporter: well, as you know, antibody test will not tell you if you have an active infection. they tell you if you may have had a past infection. as part of an overall program, a major testing company is now offering those antibody tests to anyone who wants one including employers. but is that a good idea? >> we feel really lucky that we've recovered and, you know, it's behind us. >> reporter: lisa wagner and her husband matty goldberg fell ill from coronavirus in march. in april, they had antibody tests before visiting her elderly parents. they came back positive. >> we feel a little bit like we have a superpower. but only within, you know, not 100%. >> reporter: you're more confident now? >> yeah. >> definitely. >> for now i feel like i have some immunity. >> reporter: many people want antibody test. major testing companies including quest l

. >> private labs like quest and labcorp have been pushing to get more of the antibody testing out therets, antibody tests. and really this is about connecting, too, with the very people that we are talking about, talking to. there has been no other time that i've ever felt so connected when we say that we are all in this together. >> it's so true, jericka. i have to say i envy you and michelle. i took the antibody test. i was negative which means i've had no exposure and haven't had it. and i was so disappointed because i, too, was feeling something, and i thought maybe i've already had it and survived it. i'm happy that you guys got the results that you wanted. i'm a little jealous, too, but glad you all are okay. >>> ahead, vlad duthiers takes a look at the stories that you'll be talking about later it's totally normal to have constipation with belly pain, straining, and bloating, again and again. no way. more exercise. more water. and more fiber is the only way to manage it. is it? maybe you think... it's occasional constipation. maybe it's not. it could be a chronic medical conditio

>> i think the kinds of ones you see now in companies like labcorp and qwest would be the sort of thing you have, where it is fairly high throughput if done in a central laboratory. frame, andthe time talking to a pharmaceutical company, one of few headquartered in indiana, the ceo said about 40 companies hasss the country, that it been at a breakneck pace to get there. especially for the one that is quick or a country our size that will have reliable results. we hear so often and heard it today that we dawdled, that we didn't get there. i like -- i would like your opinion. from when i heard from the people actually doing it, they ane working at this in entrepreneurial and feverish pace, and they didn't have the genome to work with until maybe four months ago. what is your comment on that? ani think there has been incredible amount of energy put into trying to do this. nih in bethesda, i have 25,000 employees and i want to be sure they are safe. we didn't have access to easy testing for our own employees, and we wanted to make sure if they came to work they were not infecting other peop

>> time producers had a five-minute video visit with a doctor online who ordered the test through labcorpsinai which developed its own test for health care workers, first responders and people like our producers interested in donating their plasma for research. >> go see if these test results are similar to the other ones. >> all of the test involved a blood draw the results, back in about 24 hours. for all four tests, the results were consistent. lauren and michelle positive, david negative what do you take away from that that our producers took four different antibody tests and got the same results each and every time. great. i think that hopefully over time we'll see whichhese >> it's great. i think that hopefully over time we'll see which of these tests perform the best. >> there are a few fda authorized under emergency use authorization that tend to be used and those tend to be reliable, up to 100% reliability. check fda test to >> before taking any test check fda website to see which ones are authorized and make sure you ask the doctor or lab which ones they use before you go. >> is