Optimization of magnetic bead-based nucleic acid extraction for SARS-CoV-2 testing using readily available reagents.

"Declaration of Competing Interest MK has received grants/contracts from Roche, Hologic and Siemens paid to British Columbia Centre for Disease Control Public Health Laboratory unrelated to this work."

"Support for this work was provided by contributions from the Provincial Health Services Authority, Genome BC/Genome Canada (202SEQ, 212SEQ, 12002, COV-088), the 10.13039/501100000196Canada Foundation for Innovation (20070, 30981, 30198) and the BC Knowledge Development Fund. Conceptualization: MH, MM, NP, MK; Formal analysis: SH, AMN, DDWT, SP, ES; Funding acquisition: MH, MM, NP, MK; Methodology: SH, PKP, AMN, DDWT, SP, RJC, AW, MW, DE, YZ, MM, QC, DES, JN; Project administration: LMP, JN, FT; Resources: ARM; Supervision: MH, MM, NP, MK, YZ, RJC, SJMJ, AJ; Visualization: MaK; Writing - original draft: SH, PKP, RJC; Writing - review & editing: MH, SH, MM, NP, MK, AJM."