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St. Jude leverages workforce for research on COVID-19 immune response.

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Author(s): Castellucci, Maria
Source:
Modern Healthcare. 10/5/2020, Vol. 50 Issue 36, p25-25. 1p.

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- Subject Terms:
  PREVENTION of infectious disease transmission; CHILDREN'S hospitals; IMMUNITY; INDUSTRIAL safety; LABOR supply; COVID-19 testing; MEDICAL research; PATIENT safety; HUMAN research subjects; COVID-19
- Subject Terms:
  UNITED States
- Abstract:
  The article reports on the move by Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital as of October 2020 to leverage its labor force for research on Covid-19 immune response. Topics include the hospital's strategy to test its staff for Covid-19 regularly regardless of symptoms, the efforts by drugmakers to develop a vaccine for the virus, and comments from Paul Thomas of the hospital's immunology department on the need to examine how the vaccines can protect people against the virus.