The Seattle Times
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Mar 5
In a sign of just how seriously the restaurant industry is taking the spread of coronavirus in America, Seattle-based Starbucks said staff across its 14,000 U.S. sites are being told to wipe down busy areas of the store every eight minutes.
for you scientists
https://nextstrain.org/narratives/ncov/sit-rep/2020-03-04
xecutive summary
Using 161 publicly shared COVID-19 genomes, we examined genetic diversity to characterize the spread of COVID-19 in different areas and infer the date of their common ancestor.
We find:
COVID-19 was introduced into Italy at least twice with subsequent community spread (go to this).
This includes a cluster of sequences from 6 different countries where cases appear to have been exported from Italy (go to this).
Genetic sequence data supports the hypothesis of undetected, sustained spread of COVID-19 in the greater Seattle area since mid-January (go to this).
All the sequenced cases included in this analysis likely share a common ancestor sometime between mid-November and mid-December 2019. (go to this).
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