Publication:20220118152727
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| URL | https://f1000research.com/articles/9-1336 |
| Title | From research to rapid response: mass COVID-19 testing by volunteers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation
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| Authors | Ritobrata Ghose, Álvaro Aranguren-Ibáñez, Niccolò Arecco, Diego Balboa, Marc Bataller, Sergi Beltran, Hannah Benisty, Angèle Bénard, Edgar Bernardo, Sílvia Carbonell Sala, Eloi Casals, Ludovica Ciampi, Livia Condemi, Alberto Corvó, Marta Cosín-Tomás, Mirabai Cuenca-Ardura, Juan Manuel Duran Serrano, María Isabel Espejo Díaz, Marcos Fernandez Callejo, Antoni Gañez-Zapater, Raquel Garcia-Castellanos, Romina Garrido, Gil Henkin, Toni Hermoso Pulido, Xavier Hernandez-Alias, Jorge Herrero Vicente, Matthew Ingham, Wei Ming Lim, Sílvia Llonch, Elena Marmesat Bertoli, Irene Miguel-Escalada, Ariadna Montero-Blay, Cristina Navarrete Hernández, Maria Victoria Neguembor, Róisín-Ana Ní Chárthaigh, Natalia Pardo-Lorente, Laura Pascual-Reguant, Sílvia Pérez-Lluch, Reyes Perza, Martina Pesaresi, Daniel Picó Amador, Paula Pifarré, Davide Piscia, Marcos Plana-Carmona, Julia Ponomarenko, Leandro Radusky, Ezequiel Rivero, Malgorzata Rogalska, Guillem Torcal Garcia, José Wojnacki |
| Date | 2020-11-16
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| Tag | COVID-19 testing, volunteers, health, collaboration |
Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed and is continuously posing enormous societal and health challenges worldwide. The research community has mobilized to develop novel projects to find a cure or a vaccine, as well as to contribute to mass testing, which has been a critical measure to contain the infection in several countries. Through this article, we share our experiences and learnings as a group of volunteers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain. As members of the ORFEU project, an initiative by the Government of Catalonia to achieve mass testing of people at risk and contain the epidemic in Spain, we share our motivations, challenges and the key lessons learnt, which we feel will help better prepare the global society to address similar situations in the future.
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed and is continuously posing enormous societal and health challenges worldwide. The research community has mobilized to develop novel projects to find a cure or a vaccine, as well as to contribute to mass testing, which has been a critical measure to contain the infection in several countries. Through this article, we share our experiences and learnings as a group of volunteers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain. As members of the ORFEU project, an initiative by the Government of Catalonia to achieve mass testing of people at risk and contain the epidemic in Spain, we share our motivations, challenges and the key lessons learnt, which we feel will help better prepare the global society to address similar situations in the future.
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