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SAN MATEO, Calif. -- After the discovery of the first six cases of the B.1.1.7 variant in the Bay Area, researchers predict it will quickly become more prevalent. "I would expect in the next couple of weeks you'll see it become the predominant strain," said James Lu, president and co-founder of Helix, a San Mateo-based genomic sequencing company. Lu said that prediction doesn't apply to the whole country, rather to parts of California and Florida where B.1.1.7 has been spreading. In December, his company partnered with Illumina through a contract with the CDC to begin "genetic surveillance" o...

Some states begin easing restrictions as Covid-19 hospitalizations and cases decrease CNN 2/5/2021 By Amir Vera, Jason Hanna, Madeline Holcombe and Michael Nedelman, CNN © Lan Wei/Xinhua/Getty NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 19, 2021 -- A memorial service for people who lost lives to COVID-19 is held in New Orleans, Louisiana, the United States, Jan. 19, 2021. (Photo by Lan Wei/Xinhua via Getty) (Xinhua/Lan Wei via Getty Images) There is some encouraging news in the fight against Covid-19 as more vaccines are being distributed and several states announced they will ease certain coronav...

Coronavirus variant on track to become dominant in Florida and California hot spots, testing company says A more contagious coronavirus variant is on the rise in the United States and could become dominant in hot spots like Florida and Southern California “within a few weeks,” according to a testing company that has helped identify the largest share of variant cases in the US. The company, Helix, has been tracking evidence suggesting cases of B.1.1.7 — a strain first found in the UK — are on the rise, and not just a product of increased genetic sequencing across the country, Helix Pre...

The 'UK variant' of the COVID virus is making gains in Florida, now up to 5% of cases Ben Conarck, The Miami Herald Feb. 2—The more infectious spin-off of the COVID virus known as the U.K. variant is gaining a foothold in Florida, where it accounts for about 5% of cases, according to an estimate by the commercial lab that has analyzed the bulk of the cases of the mutated virus in the state. That's up from about 1% of cases in Florida a month ago, according to estimates by Helix, a California-based genomics and diagnostics company that runs about 25,000 COVID tests a week pul...

Why the US may not see the next dangerous coronavirus variant coming Vox.com 1/19/2021 Brian Resnick © David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images More samples of coronavirus ought to be sent out for genetic sequencing. There’s a reason why a new, more contagious variant of SARS-CoV-2 appeared first in the UK: The country does a lot of viral genetic sequencing. Since the start of the pandemic, researchers in the UK have uploaded 151,859 individual SARS-CoV-2 sequences to GISAID, an international platform for sharing viral genomic data. That’s the highest number of...