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Regulators suspend Missouri nursing home COVID-19 test lab

by Summer Ballentine
| October 30, 2020 12:06 AM

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge refused to intervene Wednesday to keep open a Missouri lab that handled coronavirus tests for about 2,500 nursing homes in 11 states after the federal government suspended the lab for what it alleged were serious violations that put patients’ health at risk.

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