Telling the story of how a robotic COVID-19 testing lab has been ramping up at lightning speed at Berkeley's Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI), these reporters share a detailed timeline of actions key players took to spur the initiative. "If you've been following the US's slow-motion testing trainwreck, it should be obvious why they had heeded the call: The country needs more testing. ... IGI is among several academic labs that have wasted no time booting up operations to fill the still yawning void in Covid-19 testing," they write. Molecular and cell biology professor Jennifer Doudna, co-inventor of the CRISPR gene-editing technology, is leading the project. For more on this, see our press release at Berkeley News. Stories on this topic have appeared in dozens of sources, including PNAS.org, Interesting Engineering, The Scientist, Bio Portfolio, and KRON TV--link to video.