Mayo Clinic Covid-19 Testing Capability at 20,000 Per Day

While there's sufficient testing right now, there could be a greater need down the line.

On mayo clinic says nationwide there is the capacity to do 1 point 5 million covid-19 tests a day.

While there's sufficient testing right now - there could be a greater need down the line.

Kimt news three's jessica bringe joins us live from the hospital with a look at our local testing capability.

Lowerthird2line talent coronavirus:jessica bringe jbringe@kimt.com coverage you can count on katie- mayo clinic says here at its rochester campus the hospital can lowerthird2line coronavirus:mayo clinic covid-19 testing capability at 20,000 per day rochester, mn as far as recent positivity rates - dr. william morice says in the last month or so the rates have been around 10- percent but it does change daily.

That's compared to around a 20- percent positivity rate in wisconsin.

Dr. morice says despite seeing a rise in cases and some capacity restraints on hospitals now..

He says if we would have seen this increase 8 months ago we'd be experiencing a much different situation.

Mayo testing-live sot-1 lowerthird2line coronavirus:dr. william morice mayo clinic we're working together, we have systems in place and we continue to innovate to find ways to keep patients out of the hospital; working on outpatient transfusion centers for example where patients can get treated.

Lowerthird2line talent coronavirus:jessica bringe jbringe@kimt.com coverage you can count on mayo clinic also says around 900 employees have tested positive for covid-19 but says of those employees more than 90-percent contracted the virus from the community..

Not the hospital.

Live in rochester- jessica bringe kimt news 3 thanks jessica.

Mayo says it's had retired employees - who still have valid licenses - come back to work to meet the needs of patients.

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