Ridiculous partisan investigations. If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation. It just doesnt work that way. Well, the president shut down the federal government over his border wall and now hes threatening to shut down the congress. Hes saying youre not going anywhere as lung as youre causing trouble with these investigations. We heard a similar call from Richard Nixon in his state of the union in 1974. I believe the time has come to bring that investigation and the other investigations of this matter to an end. One year of watergate is enough. Well, President Trumps call for democrats to back off their investigations comes as the new democratic majority this week ramps up its oversight send moerb thanl 50 unredacted transcripts to Robert Mueller and last september when it was still chaired by devin nunez. Now the new democratic chairman, adam schiff, also announced the committee will pursue an expanded probe. Not only into russia but Preside
So researchers here in Massachusetts are trying to get ahead of those variants by using what’s called genetic sequencing “sequence the genetic code of viruses that are causing infections, COVID infections in the Worcester area, and then use that information to track the evolution and spread of the virus through the community,” said Dr. Bronwyn MacInnis, the director of pathogen genomic surveillance at the Broad Institute.
Through an existing partnership with UMass Memorial Medical School, the institute is using material they already have from COVID tests to do the genetic sequencing, MacInnis said.
“By and large, it’s leftover material that was used initially to do the diagnostic of an individual,” she said, “but then we’re looking at it at the kind of population level without any individual information.”