April 29, 2020
Event Recap: Responding to COVID-19 A Ground-Zero Perspective from Washington鈥檚 Life Science Community
Life Science Washington and the 天美影视传媒 through the WE-REACH Biomedical Entrepreneurship Center teamed up to share stories and perspectives from聽scientists, researchers, and policymakers about the COVID-19 response.
If you missed the聽webinar held April 23 with experts in Seattle talking about where we are with COVID-19 you can watch the .听听
Recaps and follow-ups from , 聽, and
Jeff Duchin, MD,Seattle and King Co Public Health, noted we should work on getting聽to know each other’s groups better and understand where core teams with expertise are, especially in our academic institutions, so they can help in these emergency situations.
“Open for testing!” was the message we heard from Keith Jerome, MD, PhD, director of the UW Virology Lab. The lab can handle up to 7000 tests a day now but are only receiving about 1000 per day. Why? Word聽needs to get out that the capacity is now online, but we also may be short on sample collection kits including swabs.
Should we be opening things up again soon? Not according to Elizabeth Holloran, MD, DSc from the Fred Hutch. If we do, we will see a rebound. First, we need to have in place the ability to test, isolate, and contact trace. Once we can do that we should be able to manage the situation such that only 7% or so of the population is in isolation at a time and the economy can get humming.
It was a great event, moderated deftly by Luke Timmerman of the Timmerman Report.