281 - The Importance of Genomic Surveillance for COVID-19

Staying on top of the COVID-19 pandemic means understanding the infectiousness, lethality, and spread of variants of SARS-CoV-2. Dr. Jonathan Quick, managing director for pandemic preparedness and prevention at the Rockefeller Foundation, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about a new report with a vision for tracking variants across the United States and the world.

KEYWORDS: viral mutation; testing methods