LA County Firm Awarded Contract for Military COVID-19 Testing

LA County Firm Awarded Contract for Military COVID-19 Testing
Military personnel walk wearing face masks aboard the USNS Mercy Navy hospital ship docked in the Port of Los Angeles amid the COVID-19 pandemic in San Pedro, Calif., on April 15, 2020. Mario Tama/Getty Images
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SAN DIMAS, Calif. (CNS)—A Los Angeles-based biotechnology firm was awarded a $42 million contract by the Department of Defense (DOD) July 31 to provide 250,000 COVID-19 oral fluid swab test kits to military treatment facilities.

The contract with Curative Inc. also provides for end-to-end testing operations, including testing at its high throughput lab, laboratory validation studies, personnel training, custom software integrations with electronic health records, shipping, and test results.

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