The coronavirus has infected more than 1.3 million people across the planet and killed some 72,000. How is this deadly disease mutating?
database. This allows all scientists, in real-time, to see the genome sequencing, which then illuminates the various virus subtypes and gives researchers an idea of how the virus is spreading globally.
"The outbreaks are trackable. So far, most cases on the U.S. West Coast are linked to a strain first identified in Washington state. The man carrying that strain [came from] Wuhan, China. On the East Coast there are several different strains. We have close to 1 million cases and 1,000 genomes," Sharif said.
On the East Coast and on the streets of New York, which is now engulfed in cases and an ascending death toll, there are seemingly more varied strains – both the Wuhan paradigm and European offshoots, and now U.S., deviations.
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