Dynamic DNA Laboratories LLC is working with the Springfield-Greene County Health Department and local hospitals to provide additional testing capacity for COVID-19.

The Springfield biomedical and genetic testing firm is distributing 4,000 available test kits and plans to begin analyzing them on Wednesday, with planned same-day results, according to a news release. Officials say another 4,000 test kits have been ordered. The tests will be made available to patients at Citizens Memorial Hospital, CoxHealth, Jordan Valley Community Health Center and Mercy.

"We want to utilize our equipment and expertise to help, because we can,” Dynamic DNA founder and CEO Austin O’Reilly said in the release. “It’s our duty to step up, help identify positive cases and reduce further spread. We can provide this service very quickly and at high capacity."

If you have a practice, or know of a practice outside of those four in the Ozarks, they are encouraged to reach out and speak to someone at Dynamic DNA. The facility will not be collecting samples from patients in the laboratory, but via sample collection sites and hospitals. Instead, patients who visit health centers will get tested and those samples will be sent to the lab. Then Dynamic DNA will send the results back to the health institutions as well as the Missouri Department of Health. 

For further questions, contact AJ Exner (aj@dynamicdnalabs.com) or call the laboratory at 417-319-1047.