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COVID-19 Update: New Variants and Vaccine Research

By Yvonne Puig (US), Daphne Calderon (US) and Hannah Putnam (US) on February 11, 2022 Posted in Coronavirus, General

During a recent Q&A, a representative with the World Health Organization warned that the Omicron variant is not the last of its kind. Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove explained that the next variant is likely to be more transmissible and could be more deadly than any of the previous variants. Although receiving the COVID-19 vaccine remains … Continue reading

COVID-19 Update: CDC Increasing Sequencing for Virus Variants

By Yvonne Puig (US), Daphne Calderon (US) and Jeff Wurzburg (US) on February 26, 2021 Posted in Coronavirus, General

The Biden Administration recently announced additional funding to increase genomic sequencing of COVID-19 to 25,000 samples a week. In a recent article in the Journal for the American Medical Association, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) Director Rochelle Walensky and Dr. Anthony Fauci of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases … Continue reading