{"id":9286,"date":"2020-05-02T13:16:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T19:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=9286"},"modified":"2020-05-02T13:16:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T19:16:23","slug":"texas-am-veterinary-lab-steps-up-for-covid-19-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/disease-outbrake\/texas-am-veterinary-lab-steps-up-for-covid-19-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&#038;M veterinary lab steps up for COVID-19 testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory at Texas A&amp;M University has started processing samples for COVID-19 tests for local health care providers, and the lab&#8217;s director, veterinarian Bruce Akey, says the lab has more capacity to help. The lab runs tens of thousands of animal tests each year that are similar to COVID-19 tests, but the lab would need a regulatory waiver to run the tests for humans. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbtx.com\/content\/news\/Texas-AM-Veterinary-Lab-looking-to-increase-COVID-19-testing-570067301.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the rest of the story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory at Texas A&amp;M University has started processing samples for COVID-19 tests for local health care providers, and the lab&#8217;s director, veterinarian Bruce Akey, says the lab has more capacity to help. The lab runs tens of thousands of animal tests each year that are similar to COVID-19 tests, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,20],"tags":[1085,1262],"class_list":["post-9286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disease-outbrake","category-watching","tag-texas-am-university","tag-veterinary-medical-diagnostic-laboratory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9287,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions\/9287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}