In The News: Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine
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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 UNLV tell the 8 News Now I-Team.
If you think your office is stuffy or dusty or all-around dirty--maybe it is. But that air you're breathing when you're there might just be better than what you breathe in at home. We look into the findings of a new study that may have you thinking a lot more about ventilation systems than you ever imagined.
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A wastewater tracking program at University of Nevada Las Vegas will have its data shared nationwide, as the The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hopes to track the next COVID-19 surge.
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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.
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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.
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When UNLV researchers want to predict the path of the pandemic they pop open a manhole.
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Edwin Oh, an associate professor at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, was among the first to discover the omicron variant in Clark County.
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Wastewater surveillance is becoming more widespread in the U.S. to fight COVID-19.
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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.
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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.