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COVID-19 laboratory innovations: Sequencing and diagnostics
COVID-19 laboratory innovations: Sequencing and diagnostics
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15 minutes
Released:
Aug 20, 2021
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Timestamps:00:00 Intro00:44 With this latest outbreak of the Delta variant with COVID-19, are laboratorians still working on new innovations for COVID?02:23 Could you go into more detail, elaborate for us about this COVID-19 innovation around sequencing? 04:25 Could you help us understand a little bit on what work is being done in those areas? 07:47 Could you help our audience understand what have these conversation been like now that we’re into this pandemic this far, and the way that laboratory medicine testing is moving? I imagine you’re having more conversations with some of your Infectious Disease colleagues and you’re having more conversations with public health these days?09:35 How do you answer that question?11:18 Are there one or two COVID-related challenges that have really been running around in your mind the past week?13:25 How is the Delta variant impacting what we’re thinking about for starting school?14:38 Outro Resources:American Academy of Pediatrics
Released:
Aug 20, 2021
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Podcast episode
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