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Net Medical Announces Expansion of COVID, Flu and RSV PCR Testing in New Mexico as State Withdraws Financial Support for Testing Services
Net Medical Announces Expansion of COVID, Flu and RSV PCR Testing in New Mexico as State Withdraws Financial Support for Testing Services.
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[{"type":"text","content":"ALBUQUERQUE, NM / ACCESSWIRE / December 9, 2022 / Net Medical (OTC PINK:NMXS) announced today that the company's mobile medical vans will be providing COVID, FLU, and RSV PCR respiratory testing in New Mexico on an expanded basis.This follows an announcement from the state Department of Health (DOH) that it is ending financial support for testing services, although cases of COVID, FLU, and RSV continue to surge throughout the state with hospitals reporting overcrowding and long waits for treatment. The major testing company in the state has announced it is terminating services at the end of 2022.Net Medical CEO Dick Govatski said, "We are expanding our viral disease testing in New Mexico, taking the place of companies that have abandoned the state. Net Medical's mobile medical vans will continue to provide COVID, FLU, and RSV PCR respiratory testing on an expanded basis. We are hiring additional staff to manage the community's needs for testing. With the major testing provider's contract with the Department of Health no longer in effect after December 31, we will provide testing with a co-pay and insurance. For those who have depended on free community testing, we will charge a nominal visit fee of $30 which includes the cost of the Rapid tests. PCR testing will also be available at a different rate."PCR testing has been made available to New Mexicans for the last two years of the pandemic. New Mexico state leadership announced this week its decision to forego PCR testing via remote sites state-wide in favor of at-home antigen tests by the end of 2022. Already limited in many rural communities, Antigen tests, that are either free or available in the drug stores, test only for COVID. However, as shown by the hot red pandemic CDC map, the health of New Mexicans is threatened by the "triple-demic" of COVID, FLU and RSV. PCR testing has shown to be highly effective in not only detecting new strains of COVID variants but also simultaneously detecting FLU and RSV. As a result, accurate and readily available PCR testing helps mitigate the spread of COVID and is invaluable to physicians in determining treatment. Becker's Hospital Review reported this week that "nearly 20,000 people were hospitalized with flu during the week of Thanksgiving, marking a nearly 74 percent increase from the week prior and the highest...