On Mar. 31, 2020, Mayo Clinic in Florida announced it had significantly ramped up efforts to process and test COVID-19 specimens and was analyzing large volumes of specimens that were sent in from regional hospitals, as well as samples collected on-site from existing Mayo Clinic patients.

The expanded capacity is made possible by high-throughput diagnostic processors from Roche Diagnostics, running the Roche cobas® SARS-CoV-2 Test. Using this system, the Mayo Clinic lab will be able to process more than 1,000 tests per day and will expand capacity over time. In the coming weeks, the volume of testing performed will continue to increase with samples sent to Mayo from other hospitals and health care institutions around the state of Florida and the Southeast region.

Results will typically be reported within 24 hours of testing.