The University of Montanaâs Genomics Core Laboratory will soon begin research on COVID-19 variants after the lab has spent the last few weeks finalizing its research procedures.Â
The laboratory adds variant surveillance research to its efforts against COVID-19 after it began analyzing COVID-19 tests last fall.Â
âThis is pretty good for the Core actually, [to] take up this kind of work [and] then the Core is happy to do it. It did impact our other services around the campus, for other labsâ research. But again, everybody knows itâs a pandemic, so everybody understands this is a priority,â David Xing, the Genomics Laboratory manager, said.Â
Genomics Core Lab adds to COVID-19
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Editor s Note: On March 16, Gov. Greg Gianforte announced that all Montana residents over age 16 will be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine starting April 1.
For UM junior Esther Lyon-Delsordo, the only silver lining to contracting the coronavirus in December was knowing the week of fatigue and headaches would end with at least some type of immunity from the disease.
But even then, Lyon-Delsordo knew the immunity would be short-lived.Â
âI actually felt a little bit safer the past three months,â Lyon-Delsordo said. âBut moving forward, my antibodies are supposed to be gone. Iâve had to feel a little more diligent about wearing masks and social distancing everywhere.â
Rachel Gordon remembered the Friday of March 13, 2020, with a sunny clarity. It was the day before spring break, and the gray of a Missoula spring was smothering. Wind howled as 20 mph gusts blew toward the east all day.
Earlier, in her global health class, Gordon had been discussing the novel coronavirus â classified two days earlier as the first pandemic in over a decade â with her professor and classmates. Cases of the virus had been confirmed in Washington, only two states away. She didnât know much. And it made her anxious.
But Gordon recalled a smattering of sunshine, maybe representative of her excitement for a break and the upcoming trip to Bozeman she had planned. As she reflected nearly a year later, she remembered thinking to herself, âOh â Friday the 13th. Good thing itâs a really good day.â