Mayo Clinic Employees Encouraged By What COVID Vaccine Will Bring
ROCHESTER It s been a busy and stressful eight months for health care workers across the country, and while a COVID-19 vaccine is being shipped out across the country, frontline workers know their work isn t done.
A panel of Mayo Clinic employees shared their perspectives Tuesday afternoon on how the last several months have been.
Aimee Boerger is a Lab Technician at Mayo Clinic in Rochester and helped develop the SARS-COV-2 test. She says since the pandemic, the volume of laboratory testing they ve done has dramatically increased.
Prior to COVID we did about 40,000 to 50,000 tests per month, and we are still doing those same tests in our lab, but on top of that we are also doing 80,000 to 100,000 COVID tests as well.