Bob Highfill, The Stockton Record
HR Support Pros has contracted with a different laboratory with the goal of more quickly processing COVID-19 tests administered in San Joaquin County.
The company that has set up free testing sites throughout the county the past several weeks initially worked with Flow Health, a lab in Southern California, which became overwhelmed with specimens causing lag times up to two weeks for some individuals that rendered the tests useless. Flow Health also was not integrated with the California Reportable Disease Information Exchange, the state department of public health’s electronic disease and surveillance database.
Since late November, tests administered by HR Support at 17 sites within San Joaquin County, including nine Stockton Unified School District campuses, are processed by Menlo Park-based Avellino Precision Medicine. The company uses what it calls a non-invasive, swab-based test (AvellinoCoV2) and, just as importantly, the lab is integrated with CalREDIE, according to Gary Fanger, chief operating officer of HR Support.