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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. In the Kaiser hospital outbreak, we did take a sample of those specimens and sequenced them in our public health lab and, indeed, they are this variant, said Dr. Sara Cody, Santa Clara County Health Officer, in a Zoom press conference Sunday night.