COVID-19

Topic's Include: COVID-19 Media Only News Briefing: Pfizer low-dose vaccine for kids, Mayo Clinic leads biorepository core for new nationwide research on long-term symptoms of COVID-19, and Mayo Clinic will begin offering booster vaccines.

Representing Mayo Clinic at the event, Dr. William Morice contributed his expertise and experience as leaders from around the world redoubled their commitment to end the COVID-19 pandemic.

Topic's Include: J&J says Covid booster shot is 94% effective in the U.S. when given two months after first dose, BLOOD DONORS NEEDED: Mayo Clinic asks community to step up during national blood shortage, and Moderna vs. Pfizer: Both Knockouts, but One Seems to Have the Edge.

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. In this episode, Dr. Morice and Bobbi Pritt, M.D., talk about the potential for a fall uptick in respiratory viruses, such as the flu and RSV, and explain the protection that an influenza vaccine can offer.

Director of Mayo Clinic’s Infectious Diseases Serology Laboratory, Elitza Theel, Ph.D., joins a discussion about COVID-19 antibody testing in a recent story on NPR.

Topic's Include: COVID-19 media only news briefing: managing influenza during a pandemic, Mayo Clinic Q and A: COVID-19 vaccine boosters and third doses, and COVID Queries: Delta breakthrough infections.

Topic's Include: Biden: 2.8M people signed up for ObamaCare in special period, the pandemic marks another grim milestone of 1 in 500 Americans die of COVID-19, and understanding the delta variant, vaccines and breakthrough cases in Minnesota.

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.

Personalized medicine represents unprecedented potential benefits for patients. LabConnect and Mayo Clinic BioPharma Diagnostics are working together to bring world-class laboratory testing and resources to industry partners conducting clinical research and trials.

Topic's Include: Being vaccinated for COVID-19 means protection against more than severe illness, Vaccines to Variants, and COVID-19 variants mu, delta and what to know about mutations.

Topic's Include: Biden announces COVID-19 vaccine mandates that will affect 100 million Americans, how organ transplantation could become easier, starting at the U of M, and managing the pandemic that never seems to end.

Mayo Clinic Laboratories has been key to Minnesota’s COVID-19 testing strategy since the start of the pandemic. At their height in 2020, Mayo’s COVID-19 labs were running 24/7, processing up to 90,000 COVID-19 specimens a day. Dr. Morice explains what Mayo Clinic Laboratories is doing now to handle the latest surge.

Topic's Include: 3 things you can do to stop the spread of COVID-19 regardless of whether you’re vaccinated, and monoclonal antibody treatment combo reduces hospitalization among high-risk patients with COVID-19.