LANCASTER The upcoming annual Choose Wellness health fair is just one way the College Church of Seventh-day Adventists congregants interact with and serve the greater community. The event on Sunday Sept. 17 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Central Park in Clinton will feature information on vegan and vegetarian nutrition, emotional well-being, lifestyle […]
COVID-19 tests in a lab at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
For immediate release: Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Boston, MA – A new approach to pooled COVID-19testing can be a highly effective tool for curbing the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, even if infections are widespread in a community, according to researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Simple pooled testing schemes could be implemented with minimal changes to current testing infrastructures in clinical and public health laboratories.
“Our research adds another tool to the testing and public health toolbox,” said Michael Mina, assistant professor of epidemiology at Harvard Chan School and associate member of the Broad. “For public health agencies and clinical laboratories that are performing testing under resource limitations which for COVID-19 is nearly every nation this new research demonstrates that we can gain much more testing power for both medical and publ