Consider This - Simplifying the COVID-19 Conversation, Part 8: COVID-19 Testing

Episode Topic: COVID-19 Testing

This session will cover the different types of tests for SARS-CoV-2, what they measure, how they work, and what they tell us. The saliva-based surveillance testing at Notre Dame and the University of Illinois will be highlighted, as well as what the Universities learned this semester, and what institutions can do for a safer spring semester.

Featured Speakers: 

• Heidi Beidinger-Burnett, Director, Eck Institute for Global Health Masters Program; Associate Professor of the Practice, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame; President of the St. Joseph County Board of Health
• Mary Ann McDowell, PhD, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and Member of the Eck Institute for Global Health, University of Notre Dame
• Liz Rulli, Associate Vice President for Research, University of Notre Dame
• Paul Hergenrother, Kenneth L. Rinehart Jr. Endowed Chair in Natural Products Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry, University of Notre Dame

Read this episode's recap over on the University of Notre Dame's open online learning community platform, ThinkND: go.nd.edu/fe17c4.

This podcast is a part of the Consider This! ThinkND Series titled “Consider This! Simplifying the COVID-19 Conversation”.

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