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The NIH has awarded $40 million to Mayo Clinic to develop a comprehensive biorepository as the source of clinical samples for long COVID research studies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Topic's Include: Immunity to COVID-19 could last longer than you'd think, the CDC urging unvaccinated people to not travel labor day weekend, and Mayo study finds antibody treatment can help COVID-19 patients.
In September 2021, Mayo Clinic Laboratories announced seven new tests along with numerous reference value changes, obsolete tests, and algorithm changes.