Abbott Laboratories hopes to begin rolling out its rapid diagnostic test for the Coronavirus strain COVID-19 to the general population beyond “frontline healthcare workers” in May and into June
Abbott has been shipping out 50,000 ID NOW tests per day since April 1 and has been delivering on that commitment. “I get to see the manufacturing and the shipment output, and we haven’t fallen behind that,” Ford said. “In several days we’ve beaten that number and able to get more tests out.
The test, hailed by Donald Trump from the White House and praised by commercial companies like drugstore chains CVS Health and Walgreens Boots Alliance, was granted the U.
diagnostics made by other companies including Mesa Biotech and Cepheid which are also ramping up production to meet unprecedented demand. In Abbott’s case, however, the company has a much broader U.S. presence than the smaller firms. To prepare for a broader use of ID NOW, Abbott has been piloting the tests outside of drugstores owned by CVS Health and Walgreens Boots Alliance in the U.S. as a precursor to a broader general population effort.
“We started to work on some pilots here with CVS and other retailers here to say, okay, how can we get this system out of the hospital into more decentralized testing, so we can test the general population whether it’s in urgent care clinics, nursing homes, retail settings, etc.,” Ford said. “That’s on target, on plan also.
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