Texas student tests positive for new COVID-19 variant
New variant similar to U.K. variant but has extra mutation
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Researchers are now studying a new COVID-19 variant recently discovered in a person in Texas.
“It’s not the Brazil variant, it’s not any of the other variants that people have heard of. It’s in a different spot and we don’t want this to slip under the radar and go undetected,” Ben Neuman, chief virologist at the Global Health Research Complex at Texas A&M said. “We’re trying to be an early warning system and pick up these things before they become a problem. What we found were three interesting mutants and I think the most interesting of these is one that we call the BV-1.”
New COVID-19 variant discovered at Texas A&M, researchers studying its mutations
and last updated 2021-04-19 19:41:00-04
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS â Variants of the virus seem to make headlines pretty often during the pandemic.. So when new ones emerge in our own backyard, should we panic?
Researchers say, It s not nothing , but it s not something you should lose sleepover. ...what we are doing is flipping over rocks, and when you flip over enough rocks, you are going to find some weird bugs. This is definitely one of them. Finding it early is the best way to stop this and we think we did find this one quite early, Chief Virologist at the Global Health Research Complex at Texas A&M, Dr. Ben Neuman, said.