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Shortages of face masks, swabs and basic supplies pose a new challenge to coronavirus testing

CDC tells health-care workers to use bandannas if they don’t have face masks

Firms such as Roche and Thermo Fisher Scientific have been working to send new testing platforms approved by the FDA to major labs. Once those are up and running, testing capacity should greatly increase. But that change won’t happen overnight.