More than 70 US labs join CDC initiative to study coronavirus genome

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday announced that at least 75 public health, academic and commercial institutions are coming together to increase research on the spread of coronavirus throughout the country.The initiative, known as Sequencing for Public Health Emergency Response, Epidemiology and Surveillance, or SPHERES, will study the coronavirus’s genome throughout the United States and release their…