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Title Accelerating diagnostics in a time of crisis : the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and a roadmap for future pandemics / edited by Steven C. Schachter, Wade E. Bolton
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024
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Description 1 online resource (xx, 280 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Contents Early detection, response, and surveillance of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis -- Immunology of COVID-19 and ineffective Immunity -- Clinical management : a roadmap based on one New York City hospital's response to the COVID-19 pandemic -- Contribution of RADx tech to the rapid development of COVID-19 diagnostic tests -- Coordination of resources for the deployment of COVID-19 diagnostic assays -- Quality and risk management processes for diagnostic assays during an emergency pandemic response -- Development of assays to diagnose COVID-19 -- Laboratory verification and clinical validation of COVID-19 diagnostic assays -- Importance of timely sequencing, tracking and surveillance of emergent variants -- The RADx regulatory core and its role in COVID-19 emergency use authorizations -- Commercialization and market assessment of COVID-19 assays -- Testing strategies to mitigate COVID-19 disease spread -- A pandemic not just of infection but of inequalit : the social impact of COVID-19 -- Summary and path forward for future pandemics
Summary "By presenting chapter-specific roadmaps, this book offers a behind-the-scenes chronology of the response to COVID-19 and provides a rubric for future pandemic response. Targeted at lay and scientific audiences, reflections and lessons learned grant the reader an opportunity to leverage this knowledge and improve the outcomes of future pandemics"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 17, 2024)
Subject Pandemics.
Medical emergencies.
COVID-19 -- diagnosis
Pandemics
Emergencies
Rapid Diagnostic Tests
Process Assessment, Health Care
pandemics.
Medical emergencies
Pandemics
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Form Electronic book
Author Schachter, Steven C., editor
Bolton, Wade E., 1947- editor.
LC no. 2023023827
ISBN 9781009396998
1009396994
Other Titles Response to the COVID-19 pandemic and a roadmap for future pandemics