When students hired for the Syracuse University COVID-19 contact tracing team did not have many contacts to trace, they nimbly and creatively morphed into what student supervisor Taylor Spires calls the “COVID response team.”
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University’s ROTC Cadets Bring the Fight to COVID-19
“We needed a lot of help and support,” says Pruthvi Kilaru, program manager in the Department of Public Health in the Falk College. Volunteers were needed to swab and log samples at the stadium on a mass scale. The Public Health Team also needed assistance in the lab to pool samples before they were sent to the lab.
The University’s Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) answered the call.