National survey: Nearly two-thirds of Americans have to wait more than 2 days for coronavirus results More than 63 percent of people nationally had to wait longer than two days to get their results back, according to the survey released Monday by researchers from Northeastern University, Harvard University, Rutgers University, and Northwestern University.
National survey: Nearly two-thirds of Americans have to wait more than 2 days for coronavirus results “If we have any hope to contain COVID-19, it will be because strategies like contact tracing have worked. Contact tracing will only work well if there’s a fast turnaround on testing,” said David Lazer, a Northeastern University political science and computer science professor who was one of the researchers who conducted the study.