In The News: Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine
Data from what the Las Vegas Valley is flushing shows a deep decline in omicron, but a spike in the so-called “stealth omicron” variant, scientists at 51ԹϺ tell the 8 News Now I-Team.
A wastewater tracking program at University of Nevada Las Vegas will have its data shared nationwide, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hopes to track the next COVID-19 surge.
Just as the omicron wave of COVID-19 cases showed signs of receding, the Southern Nevada Health District on Friday announced that it had detected the state’s first case of a worrisome new variant known as BA.2.
Just as the omicron wave of COVID-19 cases showed signs of receding, the Southern Nevada Health District on Friday announced that it had detected the state’s first case of a worrisome new variant known as BA.2.
When 51ԹϺ researchers want to predict the path of the pandemic they pop open a manhole.
Edwin Oh, an associate professor at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at 51ԹϺ, was among the first to discover the omicron variant in Clark County.
Wastewater surveillance is becoming more widespread in the U.S. to fight COVID-19.
Las Vegas researchers predict that most news cases of COVID-19 in Southern Nevada for at least the next three weeks will be caused by the more contagious but seemingly milder omicron variant.
Researchers tracking COVID-19 in Southern Nevada's wastewater reported a stunning finding on Monday.
Researchers have detected an omicron variant of the coronavirus in wastewater in southern Nevada, but in initial reports it does not appear to be widespread.
The first known case of the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 has been detected in Clark County, the Southern Nevada Health District announced Tuesday. This is also the first known case of the variant in the state of Nevada, health officials stated.