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Photo of Deborah Birx, MD, Coronavirus Response Coordinator at the White House, wearing a mask and talking to BU staff during a tour of the testing site at Kilachand CILSE October 9, 2020. Also seen, from left, Dr. Catherine Klapperich Professor and Vice Chair of Biomedical Engineering, BU , Dr. Irum Zaidi, Chief Epidemiologist for Corona Response Coordinator, and President Robert A. Brown stop briefly to talk. The site was not in use while the group gathered, and the group stands at an appropriate social distance from one another.
October 9, 2020
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Coronavirus Response Coordinator Visits BU Clinical Testing Lab

Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, visited Boston University and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT on Friday. Birx (left) and Irum Zaidi, corona response coordinator chief epidemiologist (second from right), toured BU’s Clinical Testing Lab at the Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering with BU President Robert A. Brown (right) and testing lab head Catherine Klapperich, an ENG professor of biomedical engineering (second from left). This week the lab processed its 200,000th test result. Photo by Cydney Scott

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  1. The work of Dr.Klapperich and her team at the BU lab has been nothing short of outstanding. The BU Lab should be the ideal for all other campuses. Go Terriers!

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  2. I completely agree. The rest of the country should look at BU as how to deal with Pandemic. Work needs to be done to address the Mental Health of students in quarantine and isolation however I feel the students , parents and University are needing more direction in how to deal with mental health. My son is a senior and navigating this year very successfully so far. Each freshman and Transfer Student mostly and any other who need it should be checked on and interviewed as to what they feel they need to be successful or if they are ready to be there. The testing and protocols have been amazing. The students deserve so much credit. Thanks for all your trying to do and for continued success going into the next semester in 2021. Also I believe students can be more involved helping other students.

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  3. Three cheers to BU Lab , the entire BU health and of course Dr Klapperich without whose perseverance BU would not have been able to keto up to its standards under d able guidance of President Robert Brown !Terriers rock !

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