When the pandemic hit, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard quickly converted its research lab into a mass coronavirus testing facility. Now, it's running about 7% of the nation's total of about 1 million tests per day. commonhealth
The goal is to hit over 100,000 tests a day soon, said Stacey Gabriel, who oversees all the testing. The ramp-up is challenging, she said, but it's working.
As the pandemic was just starting to hit in Boston, she had a very frustrating time arranging a test for a patient."I can say that it consumed probably almost 12 hours to make things happen," she said."Twelve continuous hours of my making phone calls." From her car, Hung called Gabriel at the Broad Genomics Platform, to broach the idea of using its DNA machines for coronavirus testing."My next phone call was to Eric, knowing that he had to approve, essentially, what I was proposing," Hung said.Broad Institute President Eric Lander have
"There are not many institutions where I could pick up the phone, make two phone calls, based simply on my personal assessment, and have people mobilize and say, ‘Let’s evaluate this,’ and then really rapidly say, ‘Let’s just do this.’" she said."It was all a leap of faith."
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