Dottore:
It's both interesting and surprising to note that the prowess of the US, and the entire European countries are over hyped.

These countries had more than enough time to prepare themselves and contain the Corona Virus having witnessed the menace of the disease in China yet they seem to have been taken unawares.
Just within less than one month of Europe coming in contact of the virus they not only became the epicenter but show the weakest defense against the virus.

China and South Korea fought to the admiration of everyone. What are these other countries doing. China currently
is even donating resources to some European countries to assist them. Chai

SciLab:
Medical laboratory scientists and clinical laboratory technicians have been working extra hours to assist with the battle against the Coronavirus pandemic.

One Medical laboratory scientist, Jina Chung, has pulled 15-hour days. Rohit Shankar, a technician, abandoned plans for his vacation next week to Bali, Indonesia, so he could help out.

Scientists extract the genetic material from all the patient samples, and load them into 96-well plates for coronavirus screening. Any positive samples are sent to the state for further analysis, and results are also communicated to the necessary hospital or doctors, who then follow-up with patients.

Nearly 900 samples were being processed on Tuesday afternoon, and Dr. Alex Greninger, assistant director of the virology lab, said the facility was preparing to handle up to 5,000 daily.

“Wow,” one laboratory technician said. “And I thought we were busy now.”

As of Thursday, the mobile clinic had already screened 476 patients, with eight cases testing positive for Covid-19, according to Dr. Cohen, with many more turning out positive for influenza.


UW Medicine is looking to set up a second drive-thru clinic in the south part of the city.
UW Medicine is looking to set up a second drive-thru clinic in the south part of the city.
Although mobile clinics are usually seen as something ephemeral, Dr. Cohen said, “I think we’re in this for the long haul.” And by that, he means months. “Until there’s another way to get people rapidly screened.”

UW Medicine is looking to set up a second location in the south part of the city. The priority for now is to ramp up the capacity to serve the patients and staff at UW Medicine, rather than serving the general public. A similar mobile clinic in Denver, open to anyone with a doctor’s order, had hourslong delays for testing this week.

But like hand sanitizer, bread and toilet paper, supplies for testing are running low. “We are running low on the swabs. That’s going to be the bottleneck for this clinic,” Dr. Cohen said. “But right now we’re just trying to test as many people as we can.”

Excerpts-

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/coronavirus-testing-drive-through-seattle.amp.html

SciLab:
Medical laboratory scientists and clinical laboratory technicians have been working extra hours to assist with the battle against the Coronavirus pandemic.

One Medical laboratory scientist, Jina Chung, has pulled 15-hour days. Rohit Shankar, a technician, abandoned plans for his vacation next week to Bali, Indonesia, so he could help out.

Scientists extract the genetic material from all the patient samples, and load them into 96-well plates for coronavirus screening. Any positive samples are sent to the state for further analysis, and results are also communicated to the necessary hospital or doctors, who then follow-up with patients.

Nearly 900 samples were being processed on Tuesday afternoon, and Dr. Alex Greninger, assistant director of the virology lab, said the facility was preparing to handle up to 5,000 daily.

“Wow,” one laboratory technician said. “And I thought we were busy now.”

As of Thursday, the mobile clinic had already screened 476 patients, with eight cases testing positive for Covid-19, according to Dr. Cohen, with many more turning out positive for influenza.


UW Medicine is looking to set up a second drive-thru clinic in the south part of the city.
UW Medicine is looking to set up a second drive-thru clinic in the south part of the city.
Although mobile clinics are usually seen as something ephemeral, Dr. Cohen said, “I think we’re in this for the long haul.” And by that, he means months. “Until there’s another way to get people rapidly screened.”

UW Medicine is looking to set up a second location in the south part of the city. The priority for now is to ramp up the capacity to serve the patients and staff at UW Medicine, rather than serving the general public. A similar mobile clinic in Denver, open to anyone with a doctor’s order, had hourslong delays for testing this week.

But like hand sanitizer, bread and toilet paper, supplies for testing are running low. “We are running low on the swabs. That’s going to be the bottleneck for this clinic,” Dr. Cohen said. “But right now we’re just trying to test as many people as we can.”

Excerpts-

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/coronavirus-testing-drive-through-seattle.amp.html

joyandfaith:


https://www.uwmedicine.org/bios/alexander-greninger

joyandfaith:



https://aid.uw.edu/faculty/seth-cohen-md-msc

joyandfaith:


https://www.uwmedicine.org/bios/alexander-greninger

joyandfaith:



https://aid.uw.edu/faculty/seth-cohen-md-msc