Answers from the Lab

William Morice, II, M.D., Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and President of Mayo Clinic Laboratories, joins the Answers from the Lab podcast for his weekly leadership update. On this episode, Dr. Morice discusses the future of testing for COVID-19, predicting who would be at the highest risk for severe disease, and challenges with existing diagnostics.

Show Notes

01:16 What are you thinking when you look to the future for laboratory testing for COVID-19? 

03:05 What are your thoughts on that? What would be some ways that we could predict who would be at risk for severe disease and really might go downhill quickly? 

04:47 So should we be testing for T-cells? Are there any T-cell marker tests in the future? 

05:41 Can you tell us a little bit about that from your view as our chair?

Resources:
https://news.mayocliniclabs.com/covid19/

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