Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced Thursday night that Center for Covid Control COVID-19 testing sites will not be reopening for the foreseeable future.
raised concerns about what was going on inside a Hyde Park clinic. He claimed it was filthy and unsafe, with biohazard waste going into an open trash can.
The Center for Covid Control temporarily shut down all its sites earlier this month, but the state Attorney General’s office is taking further action. “Although the company voluntarily suspended operations, my office contacted company officials to demand that the Center for Covid Control immediately stop engaging in any fraudulent or deceptive conduct, particularly with respect to the delivery of testing results or billing. In addition to evaluating residents’ complaints, attorneys from my Consumer Fraud Division interviewed former employees of the Center for Covid Control,” Raoul said in the statement.
The Minnesota lawsuit further claims that that “employees were instructed to falsely tell consumers that the test result had been inconclusive and that they needed to take another test.”“They trusted that they would get correct results on time. They didn’t get that,” he said. “We’re holding these companies accountable that sent back false or inaccurate results when they sent them back at all.”On Wednesday, Gov.
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