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This Is Where the New ‘Mu’ COVID Variant Started—and Raged

‘EYE OF THE TORNADO’

Mu was just flagged as a “variant of interest.” Here’s how it swept Colombia, where the variant—which at one point made up for most of the country’s cases—was first detected.

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