[IsraelTimes] Finding himself on sabbatical in Israel for the pandemic, Daniel Douek has ended up carving out an important role for the Jewish state in America’s battle against COVID-19.
The NIH is determined to cast its net globally for coronavirus research. But few countries match Israel’s organized stock of blood samples from both healthy and sick citizens, and this has turned the country into an important center for NIH research, said Douek, a human immunologist.
He said that the project in progress aims to enable doctors, based on assessments of patients’ blood — cross-referenced with follow-up information on how they fare — to assess early on who is at risk of a sudden deterioration, and give them tools to intervene. |