{"id":139840,"date":"2020-03-16T12:29:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T11:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=139840"},"modified":"2020-03-16T12:29:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T11:29:03","slug":"karl-anthony-towns-is-donating-100000-to-the-mayo-clinic-to-help-with-coronavirus-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/karl-anthony-towns-is-donating-100000-to-the-mayo-clinic-to-help-with-coronavirus-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl-Anthony Towns is donating $100,000 to the Mayo Clinic to help with coronavirus test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Timberwolves Center Karl-Anthony Towns announced he will be donating $100,000 to Mayo Clinic which has begun rolling out a test to detect the virus that causes COVID-19.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur team has been working around the clock for the past month to develop a test for COVID-19,\u201d says Dr. William\u00a0Morice\u00a0II, chair of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic. \u201cWe are blown away by Karl\u2019s gesture to help us fast-track offering testing to more patients across Minnesota and the nation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayoClinic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MayoClinic<\/a> has begun rolling out a test to detect the virus that causes COVID-19. My hope is that we can fight this virus quicker and more efficiently by increasing the testing capabilities and availability and Mayo Clinic\u2019s overall COVID-19 response. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/af9vcO711p\">pic.twitter.com\/af9vcO711p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Karl-Anthony Towns (@KarlTowns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KarlTowns\/status\/1239355199665377281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Karl-Anthony Towns is donating $100,000 to the Mayo Clinic to help with coronavirus test development. The clinic says that &#8220;Mayo expects this donation to help increase testing capacity from 200 per day to over 1,000 tests per day in the coming weeks.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wOCSbkINjm\">pic.twitter.com\/wOCSbkINjm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike Vorkunov (@MikeVorkunov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeVorkunov\/status\/1239355946461249536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mayo expects this donation to help increase testing capacity from 200 per day to over 1,000 tests per day in the coming weeks. For those who are interested in being a part of making COVID-19 testing capabilities possible and increasing availability, as well as supporting Mayo Clinic\u2019s overall COVID-19 response, please visit mayoclinic.org.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Timberwolves Center Karl-Anthony Towns announced he will be donating $100,000 to Mayo Clinic which has begun rolling out a test to detect the virus that causes COVID-19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[12543],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-139840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-coronavirus-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139840"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=139840"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=139840"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=139840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}