New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is directing more than 5,000 pharmacies to conduct tests for COVID-19.
According to Business Insider, the state will begin antibody testing for frontline healthcare and transit workers next week.
In addition, Cuomo said the state will begin antibody testing frontline healthcare workers at four major New York City hospitals.
Among them include Bellevue Hospital and the hard-hit Elmhurst Hospital in Queens.
Cuomo called the coronavirus pandemic "the worst thing we have experienced in modern history," and a roadblock to reopening the economy.
Testing is what we are compulsively, obsessively focused on now. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo