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Multiple COVID-19 variants of concern have reached Houston, Texas New research by a team at Houston Methodist Hospital in the United States has modeled the aggressive genomic sequencing of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) observed in the United Kingdom to document viral community spread in Houston, Texas. Houston has thus become the first American city to document four SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern. Here we report discovery of the UK (B.1.1.7), South Africa (B.1.351...

Houston Methodist finds multiple cases of significant coronavirus mutations, including Brazil strain Infectious disease pathologists have sequenced more than 20,000 genomes of SARS-CoV-2 virus Newswise — HOUSTON-(March 2, 2021) – Houston Methodist discovered 28 cases of coronavirus variants in its latest batches of virus genomes sequenced from patients with positive COVID-19 tests, including what might be the state’s first confirmation of four cases of the Brazil variant known as P.1. Hou...