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ADHS, ASU announce partnership to increase COVID-19 testing in Arizona

The Arizona Department of Health Services and Arizona State University announced a new partnership that will increase COVID-19 diagnostic testing in Arizona. ASU will launch several testing sites that will provide free saliva diagnostic testing for COVID-19 in high-need underserved communities around the state.

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In response to the pandemic crisis, we have converted our state-of-the-art research infrastructure into a fully FDA-approved and clinically certified lab capable of performing thousands of COVID-19 tests per day.

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