Eli Lilly’s researchers are watching facilities in which a single case of Covid-19 appears after having no active cases for at least 14 days. Once the case is reported, a sort of medical SWAT team scrambles to the facility as quickly as possible.  A nursing supervisor at Heartland Care Center in Moline, Illinois reported an employee’s positive test.

The next day, medical personnel pulled up in two vehicles. One was a moving truck carrying infusion chairs, poles for intravenous infusions, bedside tables, and privacy screens. The other was an R.V. with an interior retrofitted as a mobile lab with infusion materials, a centrifuge, freezers and computers to transmit data.

Center Director Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH was quoted in the New York Times article, “There just isn’t a culture in nursing homes that is attuned to doing research and clinical trials.”  Read article>>