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Essential California: The West Coast variant upside?


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As of Monday, California had a coronavirus test positivity rate of 1.5% the lowest in the nation, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
As cases and hospitalizations swell in other parts of the nation, fears about seeing similar rising numbers in the state remain. But in a new story, my colleague Ron Lin writes about
one factor that might be helping California evade a dreaded fourth wave: the presence of the California variant.
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As Lin reports, the California variant also known as the West Coast variant (B.1.427/B.1.429) might be helping to keep the U.K. variant in check in the state. ....

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