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The Hackensack Meridian Health system squelched an outbreak of COVID-19 late last year that infected 81 staff and patients at the Carrier Clinic, a behavioral health facility it owns in Somerset County and prevented the virus from spreading further.
The achievement took on added significance when researchers discovered that the outbreak had been sparked by a new, highly transmissible variant of the virus never previously identified in New Jersey.
“This could have been a very serious outbreak,” said Dr. Barry Kreiswirth, a microbiologist whose lab at the health system’s Center for Discovery and Innovation in Nutley performed the genetic analysis of the virus samples. The virus attacked 93% of the patients and staff in the affected unit at the Carrier Clinic and would have been more difficult than the original strain to treat.
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The Hackensack Meridian Health system squelched an outbreak of COVID-19 late last year that infected 81 staff and patients at the Carrier Clinic, a behavioral health facility it owns in Somerset County and prevented the virus from spreading further.
The achievement took on added significance when researchers discovered that the outbreak had been sparked by a new, highly transmissible variant of the virus never previously identified in New Jersey.
“This could have been a very serious outbreak,” said Dr. Barry Kreiswirth, a microbiologist whose lab at the health system’s Center for Discovery and Innovation in Nutley performed the genetic analysis of the virus samples. The virus attacked 93% of the patients and staff in the affected unit at the Carrier Clinic and would have been more difficult than the original strain to treat.
Friday, May 7, 2021 by Danielle Prieur (WMFE)
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