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UK COVID-19 variant rises to prominence in US, study finds
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According to a study published in the preprint server medRxiv, the COVID-19 variant coined the B.1.1.7 variant is doubling in the U.S. every 9.8 days. The study predicts that, by March, this variant will become the most common strain in the U.S.
As the COVID-19 pandemic nears its one-year mark, the coronavirus variant first detected in the United Kingdom has been rapidly spreading throughout the U.S., a recent study found.
Termed the B.1.1.7 variant, the mutated strain has gained a firm foothold across the Atlantic, doubling in the U.S. every 9.8 days, according to the study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed and was published Sunday on the preprint server medRxiv. The study found that the variant is projected to become the dominant strain in the U.S. by March.
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About a year ago, SARS-CoV-2 (which wasn’t called that yet) was just beginning to emerge in a cluster of cases inside China. We know what has happened since then, but it bears repeating: there have been 69 million cases and more than 1.5 million deaths globally as of December 10, 2020, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.
And as the virus raced around the world, science has also raced to understand how it actually works, biologically. Today on the Science Talk podcast, a virologist who has been part of that massive effort joins us.
Britt Glaunsinger is a professor in the department of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She has been studying viruses for 25 years, with a particular focus, before December 2019, on the herpesvirus. Over the past 12 months, her lab has been focusing on strategies the virus uses to suppress the body s innate