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Campus Remains on the Frontline in COVID Fight by Marie-Claire Williams
As the region continues its now two-year battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, The UWI, Cave Hill Campus remains unflinchingly on the frontline. Medical and other scientific researchers have provided critical input to the ongoing campaign that has aided the prescriptive policies of regional governments.
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t the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, regional governing health bodies sought the assistance of researchers at Cave Hill to model a COVID-19 healthcare demand strategy that helped to guide several national responses. In early February 2021, the academic institution stepped forward once again when student volunteers participated in the Barbadosbased ‘Operation Seek and Save’ that was launched as part of an island-wide initiative to help identify positive cases of COVID-19, following a spike in the country’s numbers. Late last year, the Government of Barbados once again turned to the campus to request assistance with modelling healthcare demand as the threat of Omicron, the latest and most transmissible variant of the virus, loomed.
