Calvin professor of nursing Katie Kunnen serves with Samaritan’s Purse and was recently deployed to New York, during the peak of the coronavirus outbreak, to work with other medical staff in the emergency COVID-19 field unit in Central Park.
Alumna Cheri Ackerman has been researching a new technology. It could lead to a diagnostic platform, which could test a person for every single virus, including the coronavirus, every time they got sick and could eventually be used for broad public-health efforts.