South Africa Coronavirus Variant Arrives in the Bay Area

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Last week Santa Clara and Alameda counties became the first in the state to record the coronavirus variant found in South Africa. The news came as the region begins opening mass vaccination sites to speed immunizations before further mutations make the virus harder to manage. In this hour, we hear about the latest research on new variants and vaccine efficacy against them, and we get an update on coronavirus numbers as the region continues to see a slowing of cases and deaths. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:29.3	Coming up, troubling new data on mutations of the coronavirus.
1:35.6	With the South African and UK variants now present in the Bay Area, a new study identifies a number of new variants that seem to have originated in the United States. We'll hear
1:40.9	what's being done to contain them from quickly spreading and how genetic sequencing is being put to work to track how and where these new variants are going, as reports of new and more contagious variations of the coronavirus accelerate.
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