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Summer Speaker: The Undiagnosed Cases of COVID-19 with Heather Kalish

Saturday, July 30, 2022 • 2 Av 5782

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

During the summer months, we invite members of our community to address the congregation about the interesting ways that they connect special experiences to their Jewish identities. All presentations take place during Shabbat services, at approximately 11:00 AM.

The Undiagnosed Cases of COVID-19 
with Heather Kalish

In March 2020, our family was dealing with a health crisis of its own. Not COVID, like so many, but rather my husband was undergoing radiation for gastric cancer. And while people were being asked to stay home, I was asked to return to work to study the prevalence of COVID-19 in the general population.  Asymptomatic SARS-COV-2 infections posed a public health risk to the containment of COVID-19 in the United States and I was asked to work on a multidisciplinary team to study the seroprevalence of COVID-19 in undiagnosed individuals. With the support of my family, I returned to the lab to develop an assay that would detect the presence of Immunoglobulin antibodies indicating a prior SARS-COV-2 infection. Ultimately, I have now spent the last two and half years utilizing this assay for many different studies and contributing to solving the scientific mystery of COVID-19.

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