“A lot of people have allergies and a lot of people like to know whether they take medication,” explains Hahn. “It’s just a nice thing to do for the community. And I think a lot of people appreciate it.”
A pollen counting piece of machinery on the roof of Waterbury Hospital has been measuring pollen for 37 years. It collects a sample of the air every 10 minutes for 24 hours that the hematology lab examines each morning.
Waterbury Hospital is home to the only pollen count center in New England that is certified by the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. Reports on trees, grass, weeds, and mold can be found Monday through Friday on the hospital s website.
Have your spring allergies seemed exceptionally troublesome in the past few days? It’s a tough time of year for a lot of people dealing with allergy symptoms but one local hospital is keeping tabs on the pollen count and providing the data to the public. Franca Hahn is typically busy in the Hematology Lab at Waterbury Hospital working as.
Behind the scenes, UC Davis researchers started from scratch
by Lisa Howard
April 19, 2021
In January 2020, Nam Tran and his colleagues in the UC Davis Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine were scaling up testing platforms for seasonal influenza and the common cold.
The UC Davis Health Specialty Testing Center Lab team developed COVID-19 testing capable of performing more than 1,000 tests per day.
Tran is a professor of clinical pathology at the UC Davis School of Medicine. He was following reports out of China about a mysterious new respiratory virus, SARS-CoV-2. Not much was known at the time about how the novel coronavirus spread or what the mortality rate was.
UC Davis Health Pathology-Laboratory Medicine Team Started From Scratch
by Lisa Howard
April 19, 2021
In January 2020, Nam Tran and his colleagues in the UC Davis Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine were scaling up testing platforms for seasonal influenza and the common cold.
Tran, a professor of clinical pathology in the UC Davis School of Medicine, was following reports out of China about a mysterious new respiratory virus, SARS-CoV-2. Not much was known at the time about how the novel coronavirus spread or what the mortality rate was.
Tran was mindful of how fast viruses can spread globally. He led the laboratory’s response to the 2014 Ebola epidemic and had experience with the 2009 novel H1N1 swine flu pandemic. Like many, he thought the outbreak might follow a similar course to the severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, outbreak in 2003, which resulted in 774 deaths worldwide.
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