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State working on comprehensive testing plan

By Crystal Staley/Sebastian Kitchen

In his afternoon update on Wednesday, Gov. Beshear announced the first stage of a unique testing regime, starting with frontline health care workers, that is designed to save lives and get people back to work.

The Co-Immunity Project is a collaboration among the State of Kentucky, Louisville Metro Government, the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute and several major health care companies through the Louisville Healthcare CEO Council.

The project will focus on comprehensive testing, centered on antibodies and developing donor plasma resources.

"It will test for antibodies for those who have been infected in the past and may have developed immunity," the Governor said.

Gov. Beshear said we are unleashing the capabilities of a special asset we have in our state, the Louisville Center for Predictive Medicine, which has state-of-the-art facilities for BSL-3 biocontainment research.



The Co-Immunity Project is a collaboration - not only between public and private institutions, but also among private health care companies that normally compete against each other. They are banding together, contributing different capabilities to this project with the same goal of delivering a testing regime that can save lives and get a community of people back to work.

"This is a unique opportunity for us to leverage all of the research capabilities of the University of Louisville," said University of Louisville President Neeli Bendapudi. "We are very eager to try to work with the entire population, first of all to protect our health care workers and then everyone in the community and hopefully from Louisville we are able to take this and extend it to enhancing the health of the entire commonwealth."



This story was posted on 2020-04-16 08:09:49
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