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The city is set to double its investment in New York’s growing
life sciences sector with a $1 billion cash injection to build new lab space,
spur research and create a pipeline of talent.
Mayor de Blasio and the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) announced today a plan double the City’s original $500 million investment in life sciences to $1 billion as part of LifeSci NYC, a commitment launched by the mayor to create jobs and establish New York City as the global leader in life sciences. de Blasio launched the LifeSci NYC initiative in 2016 with a visit to the Kallyope lab in the The Alexandria Center for Life Science
COVID-19 pool testing in Mass. schools seen by some as national model
Katie Lannan
State House News Service
BOSTON In January, when the Baker administration announced a new pooled COVID-19 testing initiative for K-12 schools, Education Secretary James Peyser said technological advances had enabled the state to take our testing program to the next level.
Three months later, with 185 of 400 school districts participating and the state now planning to pick up the tab through the end of this academic year, some of those involved are looking a level beyond, eyeing the Massachusetts program as a potential national model. We ve already had other states ask us if we could replicate the program, said Tim Rowe, co-founder and CEO of CIC Health, one of the pooled testing providers. We re expecting most states, perhaps all states, will do this.
Through the voluntary program that Baker s office has described as a first-in-the-nation pooled testing initiative, participating schools conduct the screenings of staff and students whose parents have given consent at least once a week.
As of March 29, the schools had tested almost 159,000 individuals in 22,679 pools, with a pool positivity rate of 0.76 percent, according to the administration. That same day, the statewide seven-day average positive test rate was 2.57 percent. It s a very low percentage to come back positive, because keep in mind, if you re sick or you think you might have COVID, you re not coming into school, so you re already testing people who are probably not sick, Rowe said of the school pooled testing, in a recent interview.
In January, when the Baker administration announced a new pooled COVID-19 testing initiative for K-12 schools, Education Secretary James Peyser said technological advances had enabled the state to take our testing program to the next level.
Three months later, with 185 of 400 school districts participating and the state now planning to pick up the tab through the end of this academic year, some of those involved are looking a level beyond, eyeing the Massachusetts program as a potential national model. We ve already had other states ask us if we could replicate the program, said Tim Rowe, the co-founder and CEO of CIC Health, one of the pooled testing providers. We re expecting most states, perhaps all states, will do this.