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A State-of-the-Art Solution To The COVID-19 Pandemic

Pandemic Response Lab provides high-volume, low-cost testing, and variant detection to communities across the U.S.

Solutions

Hospital

PRL offers hospitals SARS-CoV-2 surveillance and variant tracking utilizing gold standard PCR with included sequencing at volume for 1/4 market cost

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Government

PRL is the only nationwide solution offering sub-24 hour COVID testing at public-health scale with automated sequencing essential for variant tracking

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Labs

PRL uses automated sample accessioning and innovations in assay sensitivity to help labs run a greater amount of panels, as well as larger and more complex ones, cheaper and more quickly than they could with their own infrastructure.

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Schools & Businesses

PRL is forming nationwide partnerships to reopen schools with pool testing for as low as $1 per child – the lowest cost in the nation. PRL also helps businesses of all sizes ensure regular testing of all staff in a consistent, affordable way.

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OUR TESTING

Gold-standard accuracy with <24 hour turnaround time costing 50% < national average

We’ve achieved this through innovations in science and robotics to create widespread testing capacity and sub-24 hour/accurate results at a cost that easily allows for high-frequency testing. This combination enables us to deliver meaningful impact to our nation’s schools, government, hospitals, and corporations in combating this pandemic—and all future diagnostic testing needs.

The Nation's Most Expansive Testing Lab

Using our robotics background and partnerships within the diagnostics industry, PRL custom-built a testing solution for the pandemic and beyond, to deliver a meaningful impact on a variety of sectors.

“The Pandemic Response Lab gives us a guarantee that tens of thousands of tests can be done everyday.”

Bill de Blasio

Mayor, New York City

In the news

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Bloomberg

SoftBank Invests in Robotics Company Behind NYC Covid Testing

SoftBank Group Corp. is leading a $200 million investment in a robotics startup that helped spur New York City’s Covid testing process, boosting the company’s value to $1.8 billion.

Bloomberg Businessweek

More Variants Are Coming, and the U.S. Isn’t Ready to Track Them

[PRL] sends its sequencing data to New York City’s health department, then epidemiologists use it to study questions such as whether a case is a reinfection or whether it happened in a vaccinated person. In this manner, they assess how dangerous a mutation is—how fast it might spread, how severe it might be, how effective vaccines are against it...

Fast Company

World Changing Ideas Awards 2021: Pandemic Response Finalists and Honorable Mentions

Programs, products, policies, or anything else designed to mitigate either the health effects of COVID-19 or the economic effects of lockdowns.

360Dx

Flush With $10B From Biden Administration, SARS-CoV-2 Testing in K-12 Schools Poised to Escalate

With the federal government recently announcing billions of dollars in funding for SARS-CoV-2 testing in K-12 schools, clinical laboratories, vendors, and various other institutions are ramping up efforts to roll out school screening programs.

CBS This Morning

New York City high schools reopen after some have been closed for more than a year

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio tells CBS how the Pandemic Response Lab is helping get kids back to school

The New York Times

How the Coronavirus Variants Are Spreading in New York City

New, searchable ZIP code-level data provides a close look at how contagious variants have kept New York’s case levels alarmingly high.

The New Yorker

What the Coronavirus Variants Mean for the End of the Pandemic

Since September, PRL has focussed on diagnostic testing; now it is turning its attention to sequencing, as well.

NBC 4 NEW YORK

Inside NYC's COVID Lab

An inside look at a lab responsible for 24hr turnaround of COVID test results

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Hunt for Covid-19 Variants Looks to Ramp Up in New York Labs

PRL, contracted by New York City, begins sequencing 2,000 Covid-19 specimens a week

THE NEW YORK TIMES

N.Y.C. Is Opening Its Own Virus Testing Lab to Address Shortages

A new lab may help the city process test results within 24-48 hours.

FORBES

New York City Opens Own Coronavirus Testing Lab To Increase Efficiency

New York City opened its own coronavirus testing lab to process 40,000 to 60,000 samples a day

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A State-of-the-Art Solution To The COVID-19 Pandemic

Solutions

Hospital

Government

Labs

Schools & Businesses

OUR TESTING

Gold-standard accuracy with <24 hour turnaround time costing 50% < national average

The Nation's Most Expansive Testing Lab

“The Pandemic Response Lab gives us a guarantee that tens of thousands of tests can be done everyday.”

Bill de Blasio

In the news

Bloomberg

SoftBank Invests in Robotics Company Behind NYC Covid Testing

Bloomberg Businessweek

More Variants Are Coming, and the U.S. Isn’t Ready to Track Them

Fast Company

World Changing Ideas Awards 2021: Pandemic Response Finalists and Honorable Mentions

360Dx

Flush With $10B From Biden Administration, SARS-CoV-2 Testing in K-12 Schools Poised to Escalate

CBS This Morning

New York City high schools reopen after some have been closed for more than a year

The New York Times

How the Coronavirus Variants Are Spreading in New York City

The New Yorker

What the Coronavirus Variants Mean for the End of the Pandemic

NBC 4 NEW YORK

Inside NYC's COVID Lab

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Hunt for Covid-19 Variants Looks to Ramp Up in New York Labs

THE NEW YORK TIMES

N.Y.C. Is Opening Its Own Virus Testing Lab to Address Shortages

FORBES

New York City Opens Own Coronavirus Testing Lab To Increase Efficiency

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