Labs Report Mixed Results for June 2020
Posted Jul 10, 2020 in LMT Surveys

[July 9] After two or more months of declining workloads due to COVID-19 restrictions, laboratories are experiencing a markedly different recovery process. Forty-seven percent of respondents to LMT’s most recent COVID-19 Impact Survey say business was lower last month than it was in June 2019; on average, they reported work was down 42%. Regionally, laboratories in the MidAtlantic and Pacific regions were most likely to report that June 2020 workloads were lower than last June.
On the other hand, 25% of respondents say their workloads last month were higher than June 2019; a similar percentage said workloads were comparable to last year. Among these respondents, about a quarter acknowledge they’re...