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B.1.1.7 COVID-19 Variant Undetected in 15 Countries Before Discovery – Contagionlive.com
Investigators discovered that the variant was in many other countries before it was discovered and created a tool to help detect emerging variants in the future….
A recent study published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases has discovered that the B.1.1.7 variant of COVID-19, which was initially discovered in the United Kingdom, was unknowingly spreading for months before its initial discovery. The research was conducted by investigators from the University of Texas at Austin.
“By the time we learned about the U.K. variant in December, it was already silently spreading across the globe,” Lauren Ancel Meyers, the director of the COVID-19 Modeling Consortium…
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