New York scientists double down on efforts to track new omicron variant.
New York's Wadsworth Lab has been looking for dangerous COVID-19 variants for months., U.S. scientists are racing to try to determine whether there are any confirmed cases of the new variant circulating around the country.
The lab has been on high alert since the discovery of the omicron variant, analyzing positive COVID-19 samples from across the state to see if the variant is already present within the community.It is"absolutely, entirely possible," that the omicron variant is already circulating in many other communities across the country, Dr. Kirsten St. George, director of virology and chief of the Laboratory of Viral Diseases at the Wadsworth Center, told ABC News on Tuesday.
"You could see the individual mutations marked on that protein, and it was really pretty jaw dropping, because it had so many more mutations than anything we've ever seen. It was a fairly startling thing to look at," St. George said, adding that"the evolutionary change on that protein was more extensive than anything we had seen."because it has mutations not seen before, and scientists still do not know how it will clinically affect those it infects, St.
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