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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Herington Municipal Hospital got fed up with long waits for lab results that would tell its patients with respiratory symptoms whether they have the novel coronavirus.

So when a sales representative called the 25-bed hospital in rural central Kansas offering tests that produce results in less than half an hour, Herington ordered 500.

"We answered the phone on the right day," CEO Isabel Schmedemann said in an interview this week. "I wish we had ordered more."

One hundred people in her community have already come in for the test.

"They want answers," she said. "They want to...