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Mercy Hospital medical scientists race against clock to meet Covid-19 challenge

For the medical scientists at Cork's Mercy Hospital, it was a race against the clock.

Mercy Hospital medical scientists race against clock to meet Covid-19 challenge — Dr. James O’Connor, senior medical scientist and Liz Fitzpatrick, chief medical scientist working on Covid-19 sample preparation in the microbiology laboratory at the Mercy University Hospital, Cork. Picture Dan Linehan

Mon, 11 May, 2020 - 06:55

Maresa Fagan

For the medical scientists at Cork’s Mercy Hospital, it was a race against the clock.

The challenge, how to get a test for Covid-19 up and running from scratch.

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