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Members of Ochsner's SARS-COV-2 diagnostics laboratory prepare patient samples for analysis and discuss results. In the top left panel, Medical Laboratory Technician Almedina Tursunovi? aliquots patient samples to prepare for analysis while fellow Medical Technologist Rianne Ricarte takes notes. The bottom left panel shows Molecular Genetic Pathologist Tong Yang, MD (middle) discussing recent test results with Clinical Microbiologist Andrea Linscott, PhD (left) and Senior Medical Technologist Luke Caruso (right). In the right panel, Luke Caruso sterilizes the laboratory's high throughput RNA extraction instrument before loading patient samples.