How do scientists know what versions of the coronavirus are present? How quickly can they see which viral variants are making inroads in a population? Epidemiologists who study novel approaches for outbreak detection explain how the genomic surveillance system works in the US and why it’s important to know which virus variants are…
By sequencing enough coronavirus genomes, scientists are able to build up a representative picture of which variants are circulating in the population overall.
By sequencing enough coronavirus genomes, scientists are able to build up a representative picture of which variants are circulating in the population overall.