//Commercial labs hope to cut down on waiting time for COVID-19 test results

Commercial labs hope to cut down on waiting time for COVID-19 test results

More than 1,400 people have been tested for coronavirus in South Carolina, according to DHEC, but it takes some hospitals a week or more after a patient takes the COVID-19 test to report the results.Therefore, the number of new cases reported every day may have been patients who were tested last week.A spokesperson for Lexington Medical Center said it takes on average seven to ten