MSN.com: Using next-generation sequencing to determine strains of the COVID-19 virus

December 17, 2021

MSN.com shared this KENS 5 story featuring next-generation sequencing being performed by teams at UT Health San Antonio, which detected the first cases of the COVID-19 virus omicron variant in Bexar County. Dr. Marjorie David, director of UT Health San Antonio’s Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, was interviewed for the story, which also featured lab personnel. The […]

KENS 5: Using next-generation sequencing to determine strains of the COVID-19 virus

December 17, 2021

KENS 5 featured next-generation sequencing being performed by teams at UT Health San Antonio, which detected the first cases of the COVID-19 virus omicron variant in Bexar County. Dr. Marjorie David, director of UT Health San Antonio’s Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, was interviewed for the story, which also featured lab personnel. The lab partners with UT […]

KSAT 12: One year since COVID-19 vaccines administered in Bexar County, health crisis persists

December 17, 2021

Dr. Robert Leverence, chief medical officer for UT Health Physicians, spoke to KSAT 12 viewers about the one-year anniversary of administering the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to front-line employees. Dr. Leverence also discussed vaccine hesitancy, the risk still out there for the community and why it’s important to get vaccinated and boosted before […]