FIG 1.
(A) Confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Greater Houston Metropolitan region. Data represent cumulative number of COVID-19 patients over time through 7 July 2020. Counties include Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, and Waller. The shaded area represents the time period (indicated as month/day along the x axis) during which virus genomes characterized in this study were recovered from COVID-19 patients. The red line represents the number of COVID-19 patients diagnosed in the Houston Methodist Hospital Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory. (B) Distribution of strains with either the Asp614 or Gly614 amino acid variant in spike protein among the two waves of COVID-19 patients diagnosed in the Houston Methodist Hospital Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory. The large inset shows major clade frequency for the time frame studied (indicated as month-day to month-day along the x axis).