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‘Scientific sleuthing’: How researchers are staying one step ahead of COVID-19 variants – The Sydney Morning Herald
Scientists are working around the clock to find new vaccine-resistant variants in an effort to help end the pandemic.
Positive COVID-19 tests from hospitals and community testing programs around the country are sent to a network of 17 laboratories where scientists spend their days extracting the genetic material from each swab and analysing it to identify that virus unique genetic code. The sequences are then cross-referenced with public health data to better understand how, where and why COVID-19 is spreading.
When mutations in the virus correspond with an otherwise unexplained increase in cases, thats a clue…
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