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. 2020 Apr 21:jfaa068. doi: 10.1093/jalm/jfaa068
Contingency planning in the clinical laboratory: lessons learned amidst COVID-19
Allison B Chambliss
j1,j2, Nicole V Tolan
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Allison B Chambliss
j1Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
j2Department of Pathology, Los Angeles County + University of Southern California (LAC+USC) Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Nicole V Tolan
j3Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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j1Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
j2Department of Pathology, Los Angeles County + University of Southern California (LAC+USC) Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
j3Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Corresponding Author: Nicole V. Tolan, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Cotran 2, Boston, MA 02115, USA. E-mail: ntolan@bwh.harvard.edu.
Received 2020 Mar 25; Revised 2020 Apr 10; Accepted 2020 Apr 14.
Keywords: coronavirus disease 2019, novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, SARS-CoV-2, contingency planning, laboratory management
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