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State’s cancer-fighting fund backs an effort to raise the racial and ethnic mix of cancer researchers
State’s cancer-fighting fund backs an effort to raise the racial and ethnic mix of cancer researchers
It’s part of more than $15 million flowing back to North Texas from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
Aerial photo of the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth.(UNT Health Science Center)
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Nearly $4 million in new funding from the state’s cancer-fighting agency will significantly expand plans to draw new and diverse cancer researchers to the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth.
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If there’s one thing about COVID-19’s death toll that researchers seem to agree on, it’s that the official count is probably way too low.
But the extent of the undercount is a source of contention.
That may help explain why, when the influential Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle released a new model this month suggesting that the true number of COVID-19 deaths around the world was more than double the figure from the World Health Organization, response from other experts was mixed.
Some researchers who were interviewed for this story said the model seemed solid, but just as many criticized it, suggesting the team glossed over the uncertainties inherent in estimates like these and didn’t share sufficient detail about how their statistical sausage was made.
A study conducted by researchers in the United States has shown that among twenty patients with breakthrough infection following vaccination against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – the agent that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) – all of the infections were caused by variants of concerns.