To help solve a lack of testing by Berkeley and the community, Jennifer Doudna’s laboratory at University of California, Berkeley developed a SARS-CoV-2 pop-up testing laboratory. Only a few weeks after the first lockdown, the laboratory processed their first COVID-19 samples in the first week of April. The lab went on to partner with university health services and provided free testing to symptomatic students, with a 24-hour turnaround time. With the on-campus testing being a s
Screening in Mali, where 60% of people have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, found no difference in the rates of respiratory or gastrointestinal symptoms among people who had been infected vs. people who were not, according to a study. John Woodford, MD, a malaria researcher at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and colleagues conducted an analysis of clinical