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Print The coronavirus variant first seen in Los Angeles in July now accounts for about 44% of new infections in Southern California and more than a third of new infections throughout the state, researchers reported Thursday. In addition, the variant has spread across the United States and to six countries around the globe, according to the study in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. It “remains uncertain” whether the genetic changes that characterize the fast-moving variant have impr...

Ghana has confirmed cases of new variant of the coronavirus Over the past month, news of new SARS-CoV-2 variants has emerged from around the globe: first in the United Kingdom, then South Africa and Brazil. Now those strains are in the United States. The reports are unsettling. Many of us were finally hoping for better days, thanks to the vaccine rollout and a slight dip in positivity rates in this country. Instead, infectious disease experts warn that the next six to 14 weeks may be the “dar...

Created with Sketch. During a recent school drop-off, I heard several fellow parents talking about the upcoming February break. They were discussing whether they should get out of town to visit family or go somewhere warm. A few admitted in whispers that they were thinking about chancing it. My older child is a New York City public school student who has been following a hybrid schedule since the fall, so he and his fellow in-person classmates come from families that have assumed a somewhat hi...

Researchers say a new coronavirus variant found in California may have contributed to Los Angeles case surge Researchers say a new coronavirus variant found in California may have contributed to Los Angeles case surge Aylin WoodwardJan 28, 2021, 00:17 IST Nurse Michelle Goldson in the ICU at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles, California on December 17, 2020.Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images More than 1 million people in LA county have gotten According to a...

Does California have its own highly contagious homegrown COVID-19 strain? Scientists say, yes Updated Jan 25, 2021; Posted Jan 25, 2021 This Jan. 12, 2021, file photo provided by the LA County Dept. of Medical Examiner-Coroner shows National Guard members assisting with processing COVID-19 deaths and placing them into temporary storage at LA County Medical Examiner-Coroner Office in Los Angeles (LA County Dept. of Medical Examiner-Coroner via AP, File) APAP Facebook Share Since early December...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Coronavirus patients coming in emergency are housed in a makeshift ER unit established in a tent at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center on Dec. 23 in Colton, California. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Could a homegrown coronavirus strain be partly to blame for California’s surge? California scientists have discovered a homegrown coronavirus strain that appears to be propagating faster than any other variant on the loose in the Golden State. Two independent rese...

Two independent research groups said they stumbled upon the new strain while looking for signs that a highly transmissible variant from the United Kingdom had established itself here.

California scientists have discovered a new coronavirus strain that appears to be propagating faster than any other variant in the Golden State.

New COVID-19 variant found in more than one-third of Cedars-Sinai patients, new study shows The Cedars-Sinai findings did not indicate whether the strain is more deadly than current forms of the coronavirus. City News Service Share: LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- A new strain of the coronavirus has been found in more than one-third of COVID-19 cases among Cedars-Sinai patients and may be contributing to the acceleration of the recent surge of cases across Southern California, according to a study release...

California reaches 3M COVID-19 cases; researchers think new variant could be causing surge David Goldman/AP FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2020, file photo, a worker walks through the hallway of a newly opened field hospital operated by Care New England to handle a surge of COVID-19 patients in Cranston, R.I. States faced a deadline on Friday, Dec. 4, 2020, to place orders for the coronavirus vaccine as many reported record infections, hospitalizations and deaths, while hospitals were pushed to the bre...