COVID Testing: The Key to the Beginning, Middle & End of the Global Pandemic

Diagnostics have never been more important or visible on the world stage as they are today in the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Mara will speak about how COVID diagnostics have been developed, and how they are and should be used to fight the virus through timely diagnosis and monitoring – as well as introduce you to the largest database of COVID tests worldwide, TestingCommons.com, which she created with the team at Arizona State University and The Rockefeller Foundation.

Learning Objectives:

1.  Discuss the role of diagnostics in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic.

2.  Discuss the different types of COVID tests and how testing has changed during the pandemics.

3. Discuss the role of COVID mutations on testing.

4. Explain how COVID compares to the Flu and other epidemics and pandemics.