COVID-19 has had a profound impact on the world and taught all of us critical lessons. Chief among these is the importance of ensuring everyone has access to affordable, reliable testing when they need it most. For a highly contagious disease like COVID-19, testing wasn’t simply important for individual health. It was essential to minimize community spread, especially while treatments and vaccines were limited or not yet available.
Even after the federal government’s response to the pandemic, chronic illnesses, cardiovascular diseases, cancers, neurodegenerative diseases, and a host of other complex and challenging health conditions will remain with us. For many of these illnesses, testing and diagnostics are equally important pieces of our arsenal as we fight for a healthier life for everyone.
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