New coronavirus variant emerging in California re-infected patient 6 mos after prior COVID case
The new coronavirus variant emerging in Southern California has reinfected a patient who recovered from an infection with an earlier strain last summer.
The new emerging strain — dubbed CAL.20C — was found last month in the person who tested positive for a prior variant in July, researchers at UC Berkeley said.
“It is really significant that the CAL.20C variant that seems to be taking over at least a third of the cases (in California) was able to reinfect someone,” Stacia Wyman, a scientist at the University of California, Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute, said in a media release.
“That person’s viral load was very high,” Wyman said.
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