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PETBioNewsCommentFILM: Whether, When and How Clinics Should Test Patients and Staff for COVID-19

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FILM: Whether, When and How Clinics Should Test Patients and Staff for COVID-19

Published 17 August 2020 posted in Comment and appears in BioNews 1060

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This film documents a Progress Educational Trust event about what fertility clinics are currently doing — and what they should be doing — in relation to coronavirus/COVID-19 testing...

This film documents the Progress Educational Trust event 'IVF: A Test Case - Whether, When and How Clinics Should Test Patients and Staff for COVID-19'.

(If you cannot see the film below, click here to view it.)


Introduction
00:00 Sarah Norcross
Director, Progress Educational Trust

Presentations
02:32 Professor Jason Kasraie
Chair, Association of Clinical and Reproductive Scientists
21:36 Dr Ippokratis Sarris
Director, King's Fertility

Discussion
36:30 Responses to audience questions and comments

Close
48:37 Sarah Norcross
Director, Progress Educational Trust

This film was made by Video Production Edinburgh.

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