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Frequency of local UK variant doubles to 30% in weeks

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Because the frequency doubled in a few weeks, experts say that by mid-April, 60% of the samples will likely be the U.K. strain as is keeps up its steady, exponential growth. “We know this particular variant is very infectious and so we would expect to see it spread through the community very successfully,” said Colleen Jonsson, who runs one of the dozen U.S. Biocontainment Labs in the nation at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

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