California braces for troubling new variant as U.S. nears 400,000 deaths
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Stacia Wyman, a senior scientist, scrutinizes Covid-19 genomes at the Innovative Genomics Institute in Berkeley.Brittany Hosea-Small / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Stacia Wyman, a computational biologist, looks at a visualization of an evolutionary tree of the Covid-19 viral genomes at the Innovative Genomics Institute in Berkeley, Calif. on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021.Brittany Hosea-Small / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Stacia Wyman stands for a portrait at the Innovative Genomics Institute in Berkeley, Calif. on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021.Brittany Hosea-Small / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Bay Area on high alert as fears grow over new coronavirus strain
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UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center lab director Dr. Charles Chiu demonstrates the process of extracting samples of COVID-19 for sequencing while working in his lab in San Francisco, Calif. Tuesday, January 5, 2021. Public health experts are increasingly concerned about the impact of highly contagious coronavirus variants. UCSF is running tests on the strains of the virus circulating in California to help identify new strains.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center lab director Dr. Charles Chiu poses for a portrait inside his lab in San Francisco, Calif. Tuesday, January 5, 2021. Public health experts are increasingly concerned about the impact of highly contagious coronavirus variants. UCSF is running tests on the strains of the virus circulating in California to help identify new strains.Jessica Christian