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Stable COVID-19 caseloads not a positive sign, UVa says With more vaccines, the numbers should be dropping

In some respects, measures of the pandemic have leveled out in Virginia. Ordinarily that would be a sign of encouragement. However, with ongoing vaccinations, these numbers should be dropping more rapidly, the latest University of Virginia report states. “Case, hospitalization and death rates in Virginia have not changed much over the last several weeks,” researchers at UVa’s Biocomplexity Institute said in Friday’s report. “Earlier in the pandemic stable measures would have been viewed positively.” The report does point to a bright spot: Older adults — the group of Virginians with the highest vaccination rates — are experiencing fewer cases, hospitalizations and deaths from the illness caused by the novel coronavirus.

Old infections, new variants complicate Virginia Tech s picture of COVID-19

Virginia Tech’s COVID-19 numbers suggest a daunting situation. More students are living in campus quarantine than ever before. The university on Tuesday reported more people testing positive in a single day — 61 individuals — than at any point since early September. President Tim Sands says the community should assume different strains of COVID-19, thought to be more contagious, are circulating locally. But two opposing factors — old infections and new variants — are complicating this picture. Is a surge in cases merely a result of sensitive COVID-19 tests that can pick up virus from a person no longer infectious? Or a prelude to a more contagious COVID-19 variant that could become the dominant strain by late March?

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