Episode 56: Cancer Center Preparedness for the COVID-19 Pandemic

Episode 56: Cancer Center Preparedness for the COVID-19 Pandemic

I welcome back Rafael Fonseca, MD, interim executive director, Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center, to discuss the steps that large cancer centers should take to protect their patients as well as staff from COVID-19 infection, specific measures that Mayo Clinic has taken for developing in-house testing, and more.

Covid-19 has caught everyone seems like by surprise so how did academic centers start preparing to help navigate patient care. This was a very interesting discussion.

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