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Tuesday, Feb. 2. Here’s what’s happening with the coronavirus in California and beyond. Newsletter Get our free Coronavirus Today newsletter Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions. Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. While the latest COVID-19 surge appears to be abating, officials say the recent progress could be undone by new versions of the coronavirus that have been springing up across the globe. Some of these variants are armed with novel mutations that ma...

LOS ANGELES – A coronavirus variant from Brazil has been detected in a sample from the Bay Area, underscoring the urgency of ramping up inoculation efforts as researchers try to learn whether it, as well as others circulating in California, could undermine the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines. Res

One of the newest concerns in the fight against coronavirus is the variants of the disease that keep popping up.

A coronavirus variant from Brazil has been detected in a sample from the Bay Area, underscoring the urgency of ramping up inoculation efforts as researchers try to learn whether it, as well as others circulating in California, could undermine the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines. Researchers at Stanford’s Clinical Virology Laboratory screened nearly 1,000 specimens during the last two weeks and found one case of the Brazil variant, known as P.2, said Dr. Benjamin Pinsky, the laboratory’s medical director. They reported the finding to public health authorities Jan. 25. The researchers a...

After hundreds of samples by the Stanford Clinical virology Laboratory, the variants found in the UK and Brazil were also detected in the Bay Area.