As U.K. variant spreads, scientists warn U.S. isn't doing enough to track Covid strains

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'We haven't had a national coordinated system in place to do this at a high scale,' one expert said.

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, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has promised to ramp up genetic sequencing in the U.S. A CDC spokesman said the agency is working with state public health officials and academic and public health laboratories to double the number of samples sequenced every week.

"There should be 1,000 sites sequencing like we do," DeRisi said."There's just a handful doing this. If you compare it to the nation as a whole, it's pitifully small. There's a very small amount of surveillance going on." "Many of these changes are one and done from a single sample and we don't see them again, and others propagate and become more common," O'Roak said.

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Please take a day off from the fear mongering. We need a break.

This country hasn’t been doing enough with anything regarding this virus.

No surprise there. 11 days.

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The idea of a mutating virus, breaking out into new strains, is enough to scare most people. There is no evidence that this mutation makes the virus more harmful or transmissible. Understand it from virologists

I'm an anti vaxxer which is why I think we should just all get herd immunity by exposing ourselves to the virus to get antibodies, ideally a weakened version of the virus, in some sort of doctor's office or pharmacy

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