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Within weeks: Variant dominant in Florida & California

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Coronavirus variant on track to become dominant in Florida and California hot spots, testing company says

By Jason Hanna, Madeline Holcombe and Michael Nedelman, CNN

 

Updated 4:25 PM ET, Thu February 4, 2021
 

(CNN)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 President Dr. James Lu told CNN late Wednesday.

 

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"The rate of growth here in Florida and Southern California looks a lot like the type of growth that we have seen previously in the UK and Denmark ... where B.1.1.7 became the predominant variant strain pretty quickly," Lu said.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/04/health/us-coronavirus-thursday/index.html

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