Houston is the nation’s first city to record every major variant of the novel coronavirus — many of which are more contagious than the original strain.“The numbers of the major variants we have identified in our large sequencing study are disquieting,” said Dr. James Musser, who leads the team of experts at Houston Methodist Hospital behind the new finding. “The genome data indicate that these important variants are now geographically widely distributed in the Houston metropolitan region.”It comes barely a week after the ever-evolving virus’ death toll in the United States passed the...…Houston is the nation’s first city to record every major variant of the novel coronavirus — many of which are more contagious than the original strain.“The numbers of the major variants we have identified in our large sequencing study are disquieting,” said Dr. James Musser, who leads the team of experts at Houston Methodist Hospital behind the new finding. “The genome data indicate that these important variants are now geographically widely distributed in the Houston metropolitan region.”It comes barely a week after the ever-evolving virus’ death toll in the United States passed the...WW…