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How Do We Know Which COVID-19 Variants Are Spreading in North Texas? As India is ravaged by a COVID-19 variant, local and global sequencing have ramped up. By Will Maddox Published in Healthcare Business May 19, 2021 9:00 am According to experts, persistent skepticism about the COVID-19 vaccine and increased variants means that herd immunity is unlikely. A return to normalcy is still possible by vaccinating the most vulnerable, but the continued prevalence of COVID-19 variants is an obstacle to normalcy. How do we measure the variants’ spread and our own population’s immunity, and how c...

Baylor to test new drug against coronavirus variants The monoclonal antibody neutralizes all known variants of concern, early trials show Baylor Scott & White Health’s Dallas campus, which includes Baylor University Medical Center.(Baylor Scott & White) A new treatment that shows promise in fighting coronavirus variants is going into clinical trials in North Texas. The treatment, a monoclonal antibody from Eli Lilly and Vancouver-based AbCellera Biologics, neutralized all known variants of concern in preliminary lab tests, including variants first identified in the United Kingdom, South Af...

Shutterstock Several vials of blood samples positive for covid-19 infection of the new variant in the UK. UTSW scientists have been sequencing about 30 samples weekly since February. One reason the medical community pushes for vaccination against COVID-19 is to hold back variants of the disease that have found their way into North Texas. Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center recently identified the latest: Two cases of the Brazil variant found in COVID patients. Dr. James Cutrell specializes in COVID patient care at UTSW. He talked with KERA’s Sam Baker about variants and why the ...

Spectrum News spoke to Dr. James Cutrell, an infectious disease expert at UT Southwestern in Dallas.

The highly contagious variant of the coronavirus first seen in the United Kingdom will become the dominant strain in the United States within about two