Council accepts a $249,478 DSHS COVID-19 contract and a local PCR testing agreement
On the consent agenda, the City Council accepts a $249,478 award from DSHS, running from August 1, 2020 to April 30, 2022, "to sustain public health programming for response to COVID-19", and approves a laboratory agreement with Physicians Preferred Laboratory for COVID-19 PCR testing in Amarillo. The consent agenda passed 5:0.[1][2]
On June 23, 2020 the council's consent agenda accepted a $249,478 DSHS award for August 1, 2020 through April 30, 2022 "to sustain public health programming for response to COVID-19" and approved a laboratory agreement with Physicians Preferred Laboratory, working with the Texas A&M Veterinary Lab, for local COVID-19 PCR testing. The consent agenda passed 5:0. A DSHS report lists an Epidemiology & Lab Capacity (ELC) contract with the Amarillo department of $249,477.80.
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