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India’s COVID crisis flags need to forecast variants

The rise of more-transmissible viral mutants demands new ways to prevent, detect, track and treat SARS-CoV-2 infections.
  1. Anurag Agrawal

    1. Anurag Agrawal is a physician-scientist who heads the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in New Delhi, and co-leads India’s SARS-CoV-2 molecular-surveillance efforts.

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As head of one of India’s main genomics laboratories, I am part of the consortium that first reported the B.1.617 strain of SARS-CoV-2 as a potential variant of concern. I keep asking myself how we might have predicted its danger sooner, tracked it rapidly and stalled its spread.

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Nature 594, 9 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01427-8

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