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COVID hospitalizations climb 22% this week — and the CDC predicts further increases as new variants spread

BY ALEXANDER TIN The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now forecasting an acceleration in new COVID-19 hospitalizations over the coming month, the agency said this week, replacing a previous projection that admissions would “remain stable or have an uncertain trend.” It comes as health officials are racing to study a new highly mutated...

Researchers develop rapid COVID-19 test to identify variants in hours
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Researchers develop rapid COVID-19 test to identify variants in hours

by  UT Southwestern Medical Center Jeffrey SoRelle, M.D. Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center Last year, pathologist Jeffrey SoRelle, M.D., and colleagues developed CoVarScan, a rapid COVID-19 test that detects the signatures of eight hotspots on the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Now, after testing CoVarScan on more than 4,000 patient samples collected at UT Southwestern, the team reports in Clinical...

Why COVID boosters weren’t tweaked to better match variants
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Why COVID boosters weren’t tweaked to better match variants

by Lauran Neergaard  This Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021 file photo shows vials for the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines at a temporary clinic in Exeter, N.H. In September, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration approved extra doses of Pfizer’s original COVID-19 vaccine after studies showed it still works well enough against the delta variant. And...