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    Coronavirus Testing Backlogs Continue As Laboratories Struggle To Keep Up With Demand

    One big commercial testing lab revealed a backlog of at least 115,000 test, illustrating the scope of the coronavirus testing problems.
    by Rob Stein Apr 03, 2020 3 minutes
    People wait in their vehicles on the second day of coronavirus testing at Bergen Community College, Paramus, New Jersey, Saturday, March 21, 2020.

    One of the nation's most important medical testing companies has acknowledged that it has a backlog of at least 115,000 coronavirus tests, helping explain why so many desperate doctors and patients haven't been able to get tested.

    Quest Diagnostics of Secaucus, N.J., says the backlog occurred because a company lab in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., where the company's coronavirus testing started, got overwhelmed when testing started to ramp up.

    "In approximately the first two weeks of providing testing, we experienced a sharp influx of test orders that continued to outpace our growing capacity through March," the company

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