City of Milwaukee Health Department talks about timely efforts to fight COVID-19

Charles Benson sits down with Dr. Sanjib Bhattacharyya to discuss the labs critical and timely efforts.

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THE FRONT LINE BATTLE AGAINSTCOVID-19 INCLUDES THEMILWAUKEE HEALTH DEPARTMENT'SLAB.

THEY ARE DOING TESTSEVERY DAY TO HELP IDENTIFY WHOHAS THE VIRUS.I TALKED WITHTHE LAB DIRECTOR DOCTOR SAN-JIB BHAT-TA-CHARY-YAR ABOUTTHE LAB'S CRITICAL AND TIMELYEFFORTS.sanjib bhattacharyyalaboratoryCity of Milwaukee HealthDepartment:54 Dr. B: Primarilyfor the purpose of covidtesting, we the public healthlabs, like city of Milwaukeeand state lab - we are the twolabs only doing the highest,we call it category A, thosewith high needs who are in thehospital setting.

2:13:15Benson: So how quick can youturn testing how quickly canyou identify covid 19?

3:41DrB: It takes about four to fourand half hours, half of thatof putting into the system andh half for processing those.3:53 6:44Benson are theiparticular risks with Covid19for your staff?Dr B Yes,everybody should reallyunderstand we are very proudof the team we have here.

Theyare highly trained, Covid 19is a high risk virus 7:01(Butt)10:35Dr B: We havemultiple staff about 10-12staff who are trained to dothis and they are scheduled indifferent rotations.

Some willstart early.

So we havecoverage for 12 hours a dayseven days a week.