Tag Archives: Public health laboratories

March 2021—Listening to experts and others make predictions about the pandemic, it’s easy to think they’re obsessed with surfing: How will we deal with the next wave? The dangers are real. With SARS-CoV-2, the next wave might be swept in by emerging variants, with their uncertain but worrisome impact on transmission, severity of illness, treatments, and vaccine effectiveness.

February 2021—From the first, the COVID-19 pandemic has been marked by absence. Reagents and instruments, collection tubes and pipette tips; enough technologists to handle the overwhelming workloads; sleep—so much went missing or was in short supply, month after month.