A Summary of the Emergence of SAR-CoV-2 and WI Laboratory Response

Presenter:

• Allen Bateman, Ph.D., MPH, D(ABMM), Assistant Director, Communicable Disease Division, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene

Description of Session:

This presentation will summarize the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in 2020 from a laboratory standpoint, including the virus emerging from China, spreading in the U.S, and an up-to-date epidemiologic situation statewide and nationwide. The presentation will discuss building diagnostic PCR capacity, antibody sero-surveys and other studies, and antigen test evaluations.

A certificate of participation will be granted to each participant based on 1.0 contact hours of instruction toward credit.

This program is co-sponsored by ASCLS-WI which is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E. program.

As part of the new P.A.C.E. continuing education process, please go to the ASCLS CE Organizer web site to print your P.A.C.E. certificates. You will be asked for a code number to print the certificate. We will provide you this number during the webinar.

Please note that the deadline for receiving P.A.C.E. education credit for this webinar is December 3rd, 2021.

Materials:

• A Summary of the Emergence of SAR-CoV-2 and WI Laboratory Response – Presentation
• A Summary of the Emergence of SAR-CoV-2 and WI Laboratory Response – Handouts
• WCLN Webinar – A Summary of the Emergence of SAR-CoV-2 and WI Laboratory Response