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Medical Grand Rounds: How Diagnostic Tests for COVID-19 Got Us into, and Will Lead Us Out of, the Pandemic

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  • On April 30, 2020, the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital held its eighth virtual Grand Rounds presentation related to COVID-19
  • Galit Alter, PhD, group leader at the Ragon Institute, was part of a discussion on the development and implementation of tests to diagnose #COVID19, and their necessity for leading us out of the pandemic.

On April 30, 2020, the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital held its eight virtual Grand Rounds presentation related to COVID-19. Galit Alter, PhD, group leader at the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT and Harvard, was part of a discussion on the development and implementation of tests to diagnose COVID-19, and their necessity for leading us out of the pandemic.

The session was moderated by Katrina Armstong, MD, physician-in-chief in the Department of Medicine at Mass General. Other speakers included Wilfredo Garcia Beltran, MD, PhD, of the Ragon Institute; Marc Lipsitch, DPhil, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Christopher Rowley, MD, MPH, and Bess Flashner, MD, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; and Sanjat Kanjilal, MD, MPH, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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