UT Southwestern

As COVID case numbers continue to rise in North Texas, new strains have emerged, like the mu variant. But the delta variant continues to cause the majority of infections in the region.

Over the past few months, North Texas has seen a spike in COVID-19 cases, mostly due to the more contagious delta variant. As the pandemic intensifies, local researchers have begun to monitor all the new variants and track all the different mutations.

Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations have been spiking the past few weeks across North Texas. An infectious disease specialist from UT Southwestern Medical Center explains what this all means moving into fall.

One reason the medical community pushes for vaccination against COVID-19 is to hold back variants of the disease that have found their way into North Texas.

New figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have confirmed the American Medical Association's predictions of higher overdose numbers from illicit opioids during the pandemic – 90,000 nationwide. Texas had 4,000 of those overdoses, the highest number among states.

Researchers from UT Southwestern and Texas Health Resources are looking for volunteers for an ongoing study that will help figure out where the coronavirus is spreading in Dallas-Fort Worth and why it's disproportionately affecting African American and Latino communities.