Feb 24, 2021 / 06:30PM GMT
Ralph Giacobbe - Citigroup Inc., Research Division - Director and Co-Head of Americas Healthcare Research
Okay. I think we're good to get started here. Thanks, everybody, for joining the Citi Healthcare Services Conference. I'm Ralph Giacobbe. I cover managed care and the facilities and provider space here at Citi. We're happy to have Quest Diagnostics here today. Joining from the company is CFO, Mark Guinan; and from IR, Shawn Bevec. Again, appreciate you guys participating. This is going to be a fireside chat format, so I am going to leave the discussion. (Operator Instructions)
Questions and Answers:
Ralph Giacobbe - Citigroup Inc., Research Division - Director and Co-Head of Americas Healthcare ResearchBut maybe, Mark, let's just start, if you don't mind, with sort of a general update on just current trends, first, specifically with COVID. I think your guidance for the first half embeds about 100,000 tests a day. The first month, I think, trended closer to 130,000. I think we've seen a little bit of a drop-off of late. First couple of weeks of