What to know
Awarded in 2022, this project was a joint venture between the public health laboratories of New Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana; the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center; and TriCore Reference Laboratories to gather and use data from the genomic sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 to provide the laboratories with information on patterns of viral transmission and evolution. The targeted focus enhanced surveillance for a multistate region and provided information on novel variants and on patterns of viral transmission and evolution.
Findings on SARS-CoV-2 variant characteristics
- Described a SARS-CoV-2 lambda variant collected from a child in Arkansas.1
New SARS-CoV-2 dashboards and websites
- Updated weekly to focal Nextstrain builds for each of the four states in the Rocky Mountain COVID Consortium, hosted via their Nextstrain communities build online: https://nextstrain.org/community/DommanLab/RMCC/
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