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Center for Covid Control to 'pause' testing nationwide after Washington location shut down

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SEATTLE - The Center for Covid Control announced it is "pausing operations" at all of its 300 testing locations until Jan.

22 after widespread reports of consumer complaints and allegations of fake tests.On Wednesday, FOX 13 News reported that the Better Business Bureau was investigating the Illinois-based COVID-19 testing company that is being inundated with negative reviews and complaints.

The Washington Attorney General received at least two complaints.Some of the complaints on the BBB's website accuse the company of scamming customers.

Many of them say they've not received test results.On Wednesday, the city of Lakewood shut down one of the center's testing sites after investigators found that it was operating without a business license."The Washington State Department of Health and the Office of the Attorney General are both aware of national interest in the business," the city wrote in a press release. "The City has no present knowledge of impropriety at this location beyond operation without a business license.""When you are conducting testing at the height of this pandemic, and you are collecting personal information on thousands of our residents, and you don't have a $73 business license, that was cause for concern," said Jim Kopriva with the City of Lakewood.Workers at two of the clinics in Seattle refused to speak with FOX 13 News on Wednesday.

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