Abbott (NYSE:ABT) has responded to a New York Times article reporting the disposal of COVID-19 test inventory at a Maine factory.
The New York Times article on Aug. 20 stated that, as COVID-19 cases dwindled in the U.S. in June and July, workers at Abbott’s Westbrook, Maine, facility that produced its BinaxNow rapid COVID-19 tests were instructed to take apart millions of products and place them in garbage bags.