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Posted By Thadeus Greenson@ThadeusGreenson on Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 8:36 AM click to enlarge Shutterstock Public Health reported this morning that a "never-before-seen COVID-19 variant" has been identified in Humboldt County, though "evidence suggests" it was limited to a single outbreak with no indication of broader spread. The variant was found in 16 COVID-19 positive samples from Humboldt County, all of...

CREDITS: (MAP) K. FRANKLIN/ SCIENCE; (DATA) GISAID; JOHNS HOPKINS CORONAVIRUS RESOURCE CENTER Since May 2020, Jeffrey Milbrandt has had his systems fine-tuned to sequence 1000 coronavirus samples a week. The director of a major sequencing center at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU), Milbrandt knew months ago that the United States urgently needed to identify and track emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2, the pandemic coronavirus already spreading across the nation. But to date, fewer than 100 coronavirus samples have made it to his sequencers at the McDonnell Genome Institute, and the Un...

Last modified on Tue 2 Feb 2021 10.39 EST Sign up for the Guardian Today US newsletter As researchers around the world scramble to understand the dangers of several newly discovered variants of the deadly coronavirus, the US remains woefully behind in its ability to track the mutations, scientists say. The federal government has had its “head in the sand”, failing to develop a coordinated surveillance system for tracking the genetic footprints of the virus, according to academic researchers, scientific panelists and private entrepreneurs, who say they have been urging US officials for mon...