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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2020/3/1584647079850.jpeg" alt="Mosaic Life Care CEO, Dr. Mark Laney, speaks at a news conference along with Mosaic Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Davin Turner/Photo by Brent Martin" />
 <figcaption>Mosaic Life Care CEO, Dr. Mark Laney, speaks at a news conference along with Mosaic Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Davin Turner/Photo by Brent Martin</figcaption>
 </figure>By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostMosaic Life Care officials say they have an adequate number of
kits to test for coronavirus, COVID-19.Mosaic CEO, Dr. Mark Laney, says Mosaic has sent 23 COVID-19
tests to the state and a commercial lab. Tests are being limited to those
displaying symptoms of COVID-19.“In the current criteria that we’re moving forward with, that
the state has given us, is a dry cough and a temperature of at least
100-point-4,” Laney tells reporters during a news conference. “If you don’t
have those two symptoms, you are unlikely to test positive.”Laney says the testing criteria is fairly strict now, but should
soon expand as the state begins increasing testing capacity in the next couple
of weeks.Mosaic has tested 23 people for COVID-19. Seven tests remain
pending. All the others have come back negative for the virus.Laney says they have the supplies necessary to handle those
displaying symptoms consistent with the virus.“We’ve been able to test everybody that meets the criteria of
a seriously potential case and that has been done,” Laney says.Agreeing, is Mosaic Chief Medical Officer Davin Turner.“If we get the green light to go test, we have the ability to
collect the specimens and send the test and we have been able to do so,” Turner
says.Mosaic is sending tests to both the state lab and a commercial
lab. No one in the St. Joseph area has tested positive for COVID-19, but Mosaic
officials say it is a matter of when, not if, someone tests positive.Turner says Mosaic has prepared for COVID-19 patients.“It is inevitable. We are a big enough community. We have a
major interstate that goes right through the middle of our community. Folks are
going to show up and they will be positive,” according to Turner. “I can’t imagine
at the end of this that we will be able to sit here and say we did not have a
case in our community. I just can’t see it.”

Mosaic acknowledges it's a matter of when, not if for COVID-19 here