The first case of the much-talked-about Lambda variant of Covid-19 was reported by Los Angeles health officials on Thursday. But for all the fanfare, Lambda doesn’t seem to have been much of …
Los Angeles only genomically sequences a small number of positive test samples every week which are flagged by medical experts as possible variants of interest or concern.analyzes a considerably higher number of tests than its largest county — though in July it scrutinized only 5% of all Covid cases identified. As of August 11th 99,260 samples have been sequenced in California.
If Lambda was here as early as last year and is only now beginning to register significant numbers in state and national sequencing, it’s thusfar been out-competed by the more recently arrived and now dominant Delta variant.
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