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cord-274353-tzlcpx7q	McDermott, Amy	Inner Workings: Molecular biologists offer “wartime service” in the effort to test for COVID-19	2020-05-05		.txt	text/plain	1987	99	46	In order to legally perform diagnostic work on human samples in the United States, a lab needs certification from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, through its Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) program (2) . On March 12, for example, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order suspending certification and licensure requirements for any researcher with relevant skills who meets CLIA requirements to run the COVID-19 test; such a person may now temporarily run the assays under the supervision of a medical laboratory scientist in a CLIA-certified lab (4). To get around its limitations, UC Berkeley is temporarily extending the clinical lab's CLIA certificate into the larger Innovative Genomics Institute on campus, and will staff it with volunteer researchers who have the relevant skills to run the assay, supervised by a licensed medical laboratory scientist.	./cache/cord-274353-tzlcpx7q.txt	./txt/cord-274353-tzlcpx7q.txt