Author: Jornal Brasileiro De Patologia E Medicina Laboratorial

In vitro diagnostic testing has been a virtually innocent target of heavy, reiterated, often irrational cost-containment polices during the past decades, which have contributed to diminishing the availability of technical and human resources all around the world. Although working close to the “minimal level of survival” has hence become commonplace in the vast majority of laboratory services, the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic has triggered an unexpected and unprecedented universal crisis, which has rapidly overwhelmed the responsive capacity of the entire system of health care, thus also including laboratory diagnostics. Image: Michael Schiffer. … Read More →