WKBW ran a story on the beginning of COVID-19 surveillance testing for UB students, faculty and staff. “The university’s working group on testing and surveillance has been closely monitoring the sensitivity, specificity and availability of COVID-19 tests, as well as the prevalence of the virus in Western New York,” said Michael E. Cain, MD, vice president for health sciences, dean of the
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and chair of the committee overseeing UB’s Health and Safety Guidelines. “Partnering with Upstate Medical Center, we are implementing a program of randomized surveillance testing at UB that will help the university further monitor and respond to the prevalence of COVID-19.”