University of Miami Pathology Research Team Sees the COVID-19 Delta Variant Rapidly Rising

While just a month ago University of Miami researchers had identified just two cases of the Delta variant in Miami-Dade County, new sequencing data from the second week of July reveals that 63 percent of a sampling of COVID-19 patients in UM/Jackson Memorial Health System and at University of Miami’s UHealth Tower had the highly transmissible form of the virus. This sequencing data also revealed that 20 percent of patients had the Brazilian variant (now known as Gamma), 9 percent had the Colombian variant (B.1.621), which is dominating that country, and 3 percent had the Lambda variant that is currently the dominant COVID-19 strain in Peru.

Read full press release: https://news.miami.edu/stories/2021/07/new-evidence-shows-the-covid-19-delta-variant-rapidly-rising.html

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