COVID-19

Top highlights include: why you should update your medicine cabinet, a year of learning during the pandemic, and forecasting for COVID-19 hot spots.

By Samantha Rossi • March 15, 2021

Thank you to our staff at Mayo Clinic who step up daily during this time of need to provide access to testing during the global pandemic. We appreciate each one of you and all the sacrifices you personally have made throughout this past year.

By Mayo Clinic Laboratories • March 12, 2021

Top highlights include: The impact COVID-19 has had on women, SARS-CoV-2 mutations explained, and expert answers about the new COVID-19 vaccine.

By Samantha Rossi • March 8, 2021

In an article in The Globe and Mail, Matthew Binnicker, Ph.D., discussed factors that could be contributing to the recent drop in case counts.

By Tracy Will • March 2, 2021

Top highlights include: a list of COVID-19 drugs and how they work, policy changes in visitor policy at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, and what to know about kids going back to school.

By Samantha Rossi • March 1, 2021

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., consider how laboratory medicine will continue to evolve to meet health care needs beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Samantha Rossi • February 25, 2021

In an article exploring the low prevalence of flu cases, Dr. Binnicker was among the experts consulted on why influenza is so scarce this year.

By Tracy Will • February 24, 2021

Top highlights include: side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine, tackling the latest pandemic topics, and World Encephalitis Day.

By Samantha Rossi • February 22, 2021

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., discuss the changing face of laboratory medicine in the time of COVID-19.

By Samantha Rossi • February 18, 2021

Jane Hermansen of Mayo Clinic Labs weighs in on a discussion of uses for expanded testing capacity after the pandemic is over.

By Tracy Will • February 18, 2021

An article authored by Jane Hermansen of Mayo Clinic Labs considers how the experiences of the pandemic will shape the lab industry in years to come.

By Tracy Will • February 12, 2021

Being able to identify SARS-CoV-2 in tissue is key to better understand the virus that causes COVID-19. Now, a first-of-its-kind test that detects SARS-CoV-2 in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue is available from Mayo Clinic Laboratories.

By Tracy Will • February 10, 2021

Viral online posts claimed the World Health Organization changed its COVID-19 testing guidelines and admitted to inflating case counts. Dr. Binnicker helps explain why those claims are false.

By Tracy Will • February 5, 2021