I Make Coronavirus Test Kits for a Living—We Are All Working in a Frenzy

Summary:

Dr Elif Akyuz is the founding partner of Anatolia Geneworks (Turkey), one of six companies that makes coronavirus test kits.
In mid-December, Akyuz predicted that coronavirus would explode and swiftly started making new test kits.
This new strain of coronavirus (nCov) required Anatolia to adjust existing kits for new genomic sequences.
Despite preparation, Anatolia has been overwhelmed with demand exploding from 29K to 140K test kits per week.
Employees now work 17 hour days and prioritize shipments to hard-hit countries (eg Italy).

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