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New study finds 247 people brought COVID-19 to Quebec from abroad during March break 2020
COVID-19.One popular theory blames people returning from spring break vacations abroad right before everything was locked down, and a new study using genetic sequencing seems to confirm that hypothesis.“It was really the barrage of spring break, where you do have in a short period of time, really, lots of people,” explained Dr. Jesse Shapiro, a McGill microbiology professor and one of the study’s authors.Shapiro and his co-authors sought to track the early spread of the virus using genetic sequencing.