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## How Everlywell Created a National Infrastructure for At-Home COVID Testing in Under 2 Weeks | Trends by The Hustle

June 8, 2020

Just over 3 months ago, Julia Cheek, the CEO and co-founder of Everlywell, appeared as a guest on our [My First Million](https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/coronavirus-being-on-shark-tank-at-home-testing-kits/id1469759170?i=1000467040347) podcast. At the time, the coronavirus had just begun to spread to the United States, and her company — a 5-year-old startup that provides at-home medical testing kits and lab results — had no plans to produce an at-home test to detect COVID-19. She even laughed the idea off as a little crazy: “If we did, I don’t think I would be here right now,” she joked.

But within days of that conversation, Cheek and her Austin-based team were busy attempting to create a test. By mid-May — following a furious stretch of testing, initial government approval, and an unexpected turnabout — they became the [first](https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-authorizes-first-standalone-home-sample-collection-kit-can-be-used) digital health company to receive FDA emergency use authorization for an at-home COVID-19 test.

The thought that a small startup would play such an integral role in responding to a global pandemic seemed incredible: “If there was ever a situation where a 90-person company had to be part of the national response to a pandemic, then there’s something wrong,” Christina Song, a senior Everlywell official, told us in a recent interview.

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