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title: Lessons on sample accessioning and processing at clinical labs during a pandemic
description: This ebook explores various solutions for testing bottlenecks that clinical labs are facing, including automation, scalable RNA extraction methods, and multiplexing.
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# 5 lessons learned from COVID-19 sample accessioning

### How clinical labs can keep up with accurate testing at scale

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### How clinical labs can improve sample accessioning and processing for Coronavirus testing

In this ebook, we discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic uprooted the normal supply and demand patterns for public health and testing labs and the key takeaways we’ve learned over the last few months. As the critical need for reliable SARS-CoV-2 tests swelled to an unprecedented scale, the gaps and vulnerabilities were swiftly exposed in the sample accessioning workflows such as:

Infectious disease expert Dr. Nischay Mishra of the Center for Infection and Immunity at the Columbia University Medical Center provides insight for next steps in how to improve sample processing and reduce accessioning burden.