"It's embarrassing": The spotty US tracking of coronavirus mutations
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...
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