In a photo provided by the Mississippi State Department of Health, a department laboratory technologist extracts genetic material from a potential COVID-19 specimen Monday, March 16, 2020, at the department's lab in Jackson, Miss. (Mississippi State Department of Health, via AP)
March 18, 2020
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Mississippi researchers working on another coronavirus test
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Leaders at the University of Mississippi Medical Center said Wednesday that physicians and researchers there are working to develop a test for the new coronavirus amid high demand for test kits nationwide.