Mayo prepares to get back to operations

Everyone is eager to get back to normal, including the healthcare giant

State./// as we navigate the cornavirus pandemic?

There're many questions about how to adjust to a "new normal."... that surely includes the medical community.

Leaders at mayo clinic are working on a strategy for how to safely reactivate operations.

Kimt news three's raquel hellman joins us live in rochester to explain how the healthcare giant is moving forward?

Raquel?xxx here at mayo clinic?

The focus right now is on treatment?

Testing?

And research into the coronavirus.

But you have to remember?

The majority of the patients on this campus*don't have the virus.

They have other?

Serious medical needs?

And some of those needs have been put on hold during the pandemic.

Today i talked to mayo clinic infectious disease expert elie berbari about plans to reactivate operations.

He says?

Short term?

Their strategy is focused on use of personal protective equipment?

Testing environmental care?

And social distancing.

But the long term strategy depends on innovation.xxx we either have to have enough heard immunity or have some sort of a destructive vaccine or destructive management strategy that could transform this illness that's potentially deadly into a more manageable illness.

Of course tons of research into possible treatments for covi?19 are being done right here at mayo clinic.

That includes a clinical trial using the drug remdesivir?

Which doctor anthony fauci?

Head of the national institute of allergy and infectuous diseases?

Says is promising.

Live in rochester?

Raquel hellman?

Kimt news three./// thanks raquel.

Because the clinical trial at mayo clinic using remdesivir is ongoing?

Results are not yet available.

But the ??a is expected to approve the drug for emergency use at any time../// vice president mike pence's