In 2020 MAKO Medical Laboratories, a lab based in Henderson, North Carolina, was the main lab for COVID-19 tests taken through the county health department. Health officials chose it because it returned results the fastest.
In June 2020 MAKO opened a patient portal with Luminate Health. MAKO said patients could register and get their results by texting MAKO to 66349.
In July 2020 the lab said that shortages of testing supplies, not lab space, limited how many tests it could run.
These steps are from 2020 and may no longer work.