A new test developed by New Jersey s largest hospital network to detect COVID-19 variants may help public health officials understand how widespread the mutations are and how much they are contributing to a recent surge in cases and hospitalizations, scientists announced Thursday.
The test developed at Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation in Nutley can identify the United Kingdom, Brazilian, and South African variants in about 2½ hours. That is significantly faster than genomic sequencing, which takes one to three days to complete. The laboratory is processing about 100 samples every few hours.
Like the rest of the U.S., New Jersey has been flying blind about the variants presence because it lacks the lab capacity to do the complex, labor-intensive testing on a large scale.
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