Inside the Michigan lab where researchers identify, track COVID variants |
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From the start of the pandemic, we knew that the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19 is caused by that virus) was changing as it spread. Some of these smaller mutations even made it easier to track its progress around the globe and within countries. It quickly became apparent that some of these mutations were becoming dominant; at that point, these variants of concern needed to be tracked.
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