In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, it became immediately clear to the worldwide scientific and research communities that a dire need was evolving to discover effective treatments for a rapidly increasing number of infected patients.
But before the St. Louis region had even seen its first case of COVID-19, Washington University researchers were already brainstorming on how to best collect blood and other biological samples from infected patients so that the samples could be quickly disseminated to labs and researchers working towards treatment, prevention, and containment of the virus…
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