L452R Covid Variant Increasing In Bay Area, Connected To SJ Kaiser Outbreak
Lisa Hix, Bay City News Service
Jan. 17, 2021
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NBC Bay Area obtained an image of an air-powered, inflatable Christmas tree costume, worn briefly by an employee on Christmas, is suspected to be the source of a COVID-19 outbreak at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Jose.Courtesy NBC Bay Area
The L452R variant of COVID-19 being identified by viral genomic sequencing in San Francisco, Monterey and Santa Clara counties has been linked to the outbreak at Kaiser Permanente s San Jose Medical Center that led to several dozen infections and possibly one death, as well as other large outbreaks in Santa Clara County.
The L452R variant of COVID-19 being identified by viral genomic sequencing in the Bay Area has been linked to the Kaiser San Jose outbreak as well as other large outbreaks in Santa Clara County.
More contagious COVID variant found in 15 US states
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More contagious COVID variant found in 15 US states | Saturday, January 16, 2021
A researcher works on a vaccine against the new coronavirus COVID-19 at the Copenhagen s University research lab in Copenhagen, Denmark, on March 23, 2020. | AFP via Getty Images/Thibault Savary
While more than 23.5 million people in the U.S. have been infected with COVID-19 and over 392,000 of them have died, a variant of the novel coronavirus that s even more contagious has been found in at least 15 states and might lead to a further rise in the number of cases and deaths, according to health officials.
Moderna CEO: World will have to live with COVID-19 ‘forever’
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Moderna CEO: World will have to live with COVID-19 ‘forever’
Moderna CEO: World will have to live with COVID-19 ‘forever’
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel | YouTube/Exponential Medicine
As new, more infectious variants of COVID-19 continue to pop up in the U.S. and other parts of the world, Stephane Bancel, CEO of Moderna, which is the maker of one of two coronavirus vaccines approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration, believes the virus could be around “forever.”
Speaking during a panel discussion at the annual JPMorgan Healthcare Conference, Bancel said he agrees with emerging data suggesting that “SARS-CoV-2 is not going away.”