On Mar. 26, 2020, working in partnership with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Massachusetts State Public Health Laboratory, and area hospitals, the CLIA-certified lab of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard announced that it had begun processing COVID-19 test samples from patients across New England.

By adapting an existing facility used to process clinical samples for genomic assays, Broad Institute has quickly scaled the testing center to create capacity to process approximately 2,000 COVID-19 tests per day.