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Updated January 1, 2021 9:13 a.m. EST
By Cullen Browder, WRAL anchor/reporter
Raleigh, N.C. North Carolina s public health lab will soon start gene sequencing efforts to determine if a variant of the coronavirus is circulating in the state.
The variant was first found in the U.K., and cases were confirmed this week in Colorado and California. It s not surprising that this variant was picked up in the U.K. first. They have really good sequencing, said Lisa Gralinski, an epidemiologist in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. They have government funding to be doing this all the time, so they ended up sequencing something like 7 to 10 percent of all of their cases. In the U.S., we have nothing like this.
Our reading list in 2020, like the rest of our lives, was colored by the triple whammy of pandemic, racial justice protests and the presidential election. But given the unpredictability of these 12 jam-packed, crisis-filled months, how did the thinkers, researchers, preachers and their publishers of the books we clung to know to furnish us with such timely analyses? As several of the authors of the most interesting books have noted, the answer is all too grim: In many cases, we only reaped what we had long sown.
But among our favorite histories, travelogs and memoirs below, there are as many solutions as there are jeremiads, and books as fun as they are enlightening.
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