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Two mutant strains of the novel coronavirus may have combined their genomes to create a new and heavily mutated variant of the deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is responsible for causing COVID-19.
As first reported by New Scientist, the B.1.429 variant of SARS-CoV-2 that originated in California has somehow had a recombination event with the highly transmissible B.1.1.7 variant that originated in the United Kingdom. If confirmed by other scientists, this would mark the first recorded time that the novel coronavirus has developed a recombinant strain during the pandemic, although it is not unusual for coronaviruses in general to recombine.
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Salon reached out to public health experts regarding their assessments of President Joe Biden s early performance fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. and graded him with an A. I would give him a solid A, Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease doctor and professor of medicine at the University of California–San Francisco, told Salon by email. He is doing great.
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Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, expressed a similar view, writing to Salon that he gets an A+ from me so far for his first week of office.
Both doctors told Salon that they valued Biden s determination to use medical science as the basis for shaping public policy, something that his predecessor Donald Trump repeatedly refused to do. They were not alone in expressing this sentiment.
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US President Joe Biden signs three documents including an Inauguration declaration, cabinet nominations and sub-cabinet noinations in the Presidents Room at the US Capitol after the inauguration ceremony to making Biden the 46th President of the United States on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today s inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. (Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool/Getty Images)