A coronavirus strain from Washington state was one of the earliest and most potent found — and it’s in Utah
A flow cell used for sequencing the coronavirus at a lab in Seattle, April 15, 2020. Analyzing a virus’s genetic code lets researchers track its mutations. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)
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