Emily Travanty from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment joins TWiV to discuss how her laboratory was the first in the US to detect the SARS-CoV-2 variant VOC 202012/01.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker

Guest: Emily Travanty

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Links for this episode

• VOC detected in Colorado (WaPo)
• US has sequenced only 50,000 SARS-CoV-2 genomes (CDC)
• Human CoV evolves to escape immunity (bioRxiv)
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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