“It was very much an Apollo 13 type of moment, where you were looking to use anything to solve the problem," says Dr. William Morice II, chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and president of Mayo Clinic Laboratories.
Dr. Morice is referring to how Mayo Clinic Laboratories responded during the COVID-19 pandemic. He says the team started out developing a test to detect the COVID-19 infection and then expanded the types of to specimens that could be used. For there antibody and serology testing ramped up. And then they were testing patients who had recovered from COVID-19.
Dr. Morice shares that while life at home during the pandemic was difficult, the work was inspiring.
“The flipside is, it's energizing to think you're part of the solution," he says. "To know how important testing was to help with all the that we were seeing. It really gave a lot of energy to all of us in the profession to really rise to the challenge and develop a test that we needed, and make the testing available."
For the safety of its patients, staff and visitors, Mayo Clinic has strict masking policies in place. Anyone shown without a mask was recorded prior to COVID-19 or recorded in an area not designated for patient care, where social distancing and other safety protocols were followed.
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