COVID-19 vaccinations and laboratory testing

00:00 Intro

00:45 Can you let our listeners know what we know about the vaccines at this point (December 2020)?

02:00 With using the mRNA approach, do these vaccines have similar performance characteristics?

03:00 What does this mean for people after they get vaccinated? Hearing this high numbers of efficacy that is protecting me from the virus, what does this mean for how I should be behaving after I get vaccinated?

04:25 What are your thoughts on if there should be post-vaccination serology testing?

07:10 From your standpoint in the laboratory, has the laboratory developed all the tests that are needed? With the vaccines coming out, is laboratory medicine’s job done regarding COVID-19? Or do the folks in research and development still have some things they need to get done in lab medicine?

10:15 Is the fact that we have a couple of variations out there a testament that this was testing that needed to be brought up in the moment, which is why there are a couple of different strategies, and maybe over time we will see a convergence towards one over the other? Or, is there a reason to continue keeping these assays up because it really needs to be a battery in order to be accurate?

11:35 Outro