Surveilling the virus: With unprecedented amounts of genetic data, researchers are tracking how COVID-19 is evolving around the world

June 28, 2020

With access to tens of thousands of virus samples, COVID-19 researchers are constructing family trees that show the virus’s rapid spread, an unprecedented view of disease.

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