COVID STRAINS

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Across
  1. 3. first detected in California USA on July 2020 and was responsible for the summer 2020 surge out there. It is possible that it may now be extinct.
  2. 4. first detected in New York USA on November 2020 and is also known as linage B.1.526 was responsible for a late fall surge in New York. By early 2021 it has spread to other parts of the US but soon got replaced by Alpha.
  3. 8. first detected in South Africa on October 2020 and was known for younger people sicker requiring hospitalization
  4. 9. first detected in Rio de Janerio and is also known as sub-linage B.1.1.28. This variant I hasn’t spread globally and could have possibly been outcompeted by other common variants.
  5. 10. first detected in the Philippines on February 2021 and is also known as linage P.3 this variant is not related to ones found earlier and may have been outcompeted by other common variants because it never spread to other countries.
  6. 12. first detected in Brazil on january 2021 and was known for being able to re-infect people who had recovered from COVID-19
Down
  1. 1. first detected in the UK on November 2020 and was known to increase the chance of fatalities among older people
  2. 2. first detected in peru on December 2020 and has become the dominant strain in South America in mid-2021 and caused 1000 cases in the US. This variant may be able to evade the sinopharm vaccines which were the ones South America used however the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines can protect against this variant
  3. 5. first detected in India on December 2020 and is also known as B.1.617.1 and has possibly been overtaken by delta
  4. 6. first detected in India on October 2020 which is also known as B.1.617.2 and became the most dominant strain of the US in mid-2021 and in other countries and is highly infectious and can cause breakthrough cases
  5. 7. the very first strain that caused the entire global pandemic detected in China on November 2019
  6. 11. first detected in Nigeria and also known as linage B.1.525 this variant carries on mutation found in Gamma and could be closely related to Iota. While it caused almost 1200 cases in the US up until June 2021 it is possible that it got taken out by Delta.
  7. 13. (while this strain has yet to earn a Greek name it might be named Mu which is the next letter after lambda) first detected in Columbia and is also commonly known as linage B.1.621. cause a huge outbreak in Columbia in mid-spring 2021 and as of August 2021 several cases have been found in Florida which most of them were linked to travel. It is not yet listed as a VOI or VOC by the WHO.