By: Chinh Doan
STILLWATER, Oklahoma -
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ranks Oklahoma among the bottom for testing for different strains of COVID-19.
Some health experts have expressed concerns that the state is not doing enough to track mutations.
The new Oklahoma Pandemic Center of Innovation and Excellence and Public Health Lab in Stillwater, which broke ground in February, can test for COVID-19 and even take apart the samples to find any mutations and variants of concern or interest. We have 25 or so staffed in the lab and 10 dedicated to molecular alone, so sequencing is a different level of technical expertise, but we have plenty of staff to handle it, said Dr. Michael Kayser, director of the center and lab.
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