Fighting the Pandemic: Producing Testing Supplies

October 6, 2020 | By: Jason Cannon 

The demand for COVID-19 testing supplies led a researcher and his team to utilize their resources to help out clinics in need during the pandemic.

As COVID-19 continues to impact the world, Texas Tech faculty have been working hard on various coronavirus relief efforts. This video is part of a series that shares what researchers have been doing these past several months in the fight against the pandemic.
While demand for COVID-19 testing increases, the necessary supplies can be in short supply for tests that require processing in a lab. A typical test requires something called viral transport media (VTM), which is a substance the patient-sample is placed in so it doesn't get damaged in the transportation and testing process. While his team continues their work on a vaccine, Dr. Harvinder Gill began utilizing his resources to produce VTM to help reduce the shortage of this critical testing supply.

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