ATLANTA - It's news no one wants to hear, but researchers say they've found at least seven new coronavirus variants - all of them based right here in the United States.In a non-peer-reviewed posting, the researchers said the variants are related to each other and identified them as Q677P.
They think the original variant then mutated into at least six other forms. Cases have been found all over the United States, but the variants seem to be concentrated in the South-Central and Southwestern parts of the country.
The paper specially mentions Lousiana and New Mexico, where by the middle of January the Q677P variants could be found in 27.8% and 11.3% of the coronavirus tests checked for genomic sequencing.Because only a small portion of.