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COVID-19 bill would scale up ability to spot virus mutations

by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
| February 17, 2021 12:09 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. scientists would gain vastly expanded capabilities to identify potentially deadlier coronavirus mutations under legislation advancing in Congress. A House bill headed for floor debate would provide $1.75 billion for genomic sequencing.

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