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One-year-old Quentin Brown, is held by his mother, Heather Brown, as he eyes a swab while being tested for COVID-19 at a new walk-up testing site at Chief Sealth High School, Friday, Aug. 28, 2020, in Seattle. The child s daycare facility requires testing for the virus. The coronavirus testing site is the fourth now open by the city and is free. Credit: (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
One-third of Covid cases are variants of concern in Washington state Apr 09, 2021
About one-third of recent Covid-19 cases (35.9%) in Washington state are variants of concern.
Experts are concerned about these variants because they are either more contagious or less responsive to treatment or vaccines than other forms of the virus.