covid-19 variants

Dallas County health officials say many people have either not received their booster shots or never got the COVID-19 vaccine at all contributing to the decision to raise the risk level to orange.

Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are on the rise in North Texas. Over the weekend, Dallas County’s Public Health Committee moved their COVID-19 risk level from yellow to orange, which urges extreme caution.

Local scientists develop a new tool that is helping health leaders track COVID-19 spread. UT Southwestern scientists have developed a test that can identify which variant of the Sars-COV-2 virus has infected a COVID-19 positive patient. The test, called CoVarScan, is being used in collaboration with Dallas County Public Health to track several variants at five different hospitals across Dallas…

Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have developed a new COVID-19 test that can determin which variant is making you sick and they’re already putting it to use.