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Quest Diagnostics Chief Medical Officer Jay Wohlgemuth joins Yahoo Finance’s Anjalee Khemlani and Akiko Fujita to discuss Quest Diagnostics' move to roll out return-to-work services.

Quest Diagnostics is offering services to large employers geared at getting their employees back to work safely, including testing for the novel coronavirus, analytics to monitor symptoms and hotspots, and services like temperature monitoring, the company announced Wednesday.

Steve Rusckowski, president and CEO of Quest Diagnostics, joins “Closing Bell” to discuss the Covid-19 tests.

ith more than 150 coronavirus antibody tests on the market, experts share tips about what to consider before getting tested and what the results mean for immunity.

Quest Diagnostics announced Tuesday that individuals can now skip a doctor’s visit and order a coronavirus antibody test online in a push to broaden Covid-19 screening.

Starting today, people in the US can order the tests on Quest's consumer site without visiting a doctor's office. The test costs $119, and requests are reviewed by licensed physicians. After ordering the test, you have to go give a blood sample at a Quest testing center. The tests aren't used to diagnose a current infection with coronavirus. Rather, they're intended to figure out whether people have had the disease in the past.

Quest, one of the nation’s top commercial laboratory companies, has dialed up testing as the pandemic increasingly infects American citizens. Quest’s journey to helping aid in the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across the United States began seven weeks ago when the Food and Drug Administration authorized the commercial lab company to move forward with developing and running its own test, under a temporary emergency authorization.

Quest Diagnostics, through its “Peace of Mind” program, is taking extra measures to ensure individuals who are the most vulnerable to adverse COVID-19 outcomes have special access to the company’s 2,250 patient service centers across the United States. Through this new program, individuals who are 60 years or older – or have other conditions known to raise the risk of an unfavorable outcome from COVID-19 – will have special access to centers during the first hour of each day each center opens.

CEO Steve Rusckowski joins “Closing Bell” to discuss the company’s coronavirus testing efforts.