Scientists in California believe there is a native strain of coronavirus in the state that could be responsible for the dramatic increase in cases, a report said on Sunday.
Two separate research groups have the obvious California one Tribe discovered while searching for the new variant which the Los Angeles Times claims is believed to have originated in the UK.
The alleged Californian strain is in the same « family tree » as the British strain and could be behind the spread of the state in recent months, the newspaper said.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, one of the laboratories where the strain was discovered, said it accounted for 24 percent of the in approximately 4,500 virus samples collected across California in the final weeks of 2020.
Another analysis found that 25 percent of the 332 samples collected in Northern California were from the new strain m came from.
« There was a native variety under our noses, » said Dr. Charles Chiu, a laboratory physician at the University of California at San Francisco, told the newspaper.
Dr. Eric Vail, a pathologist at Cedars Sinai, said the tribe could be responsible for doubling the state’s total death toll in less than three months.
« It likely helped reduce the number of cases during the To speed up the holiday season, « Vail said.
« But human behavior is the predominant factor in the spread of a virus, and the fact that it happened when the weather got colder and in the middle of the holidays when people gather is no accident. »
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