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Government rushes virus gene-mapping as mutations spread

by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
| February 18, 2021 12:06 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is scrambling to expand DNA mapping of coronavirus samples taken from patients to identify potentially deadlier mutations that are starting to spread around the country.

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