Virginia’s state lab, which has been ahead of other states in its ability to analyze samples for traces of a variant, is averaging about 100 to 150 per week. The federal government, which is pulling data from public repositories and its own private contracts, reported that just 8,500 samples were analyzed for variants in the U.S. last week. “We’re sequencing almost nothing right now,” said William Petri, an infectious disease expert at the University of Virginia. The state plans to execute contracts with the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech.