The UK’s ‘super Covid’ variant is now the dominant form of coronavirus in the U.S., White House officials revealed on Wednesday. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Dr Rochelle Walensky announced that the variant has now been found in all 50 U.S. states and two territories. It is now the most prevalent form … Read more
Two highly infectious coronavirus variants now make up more than half of new cases in New York City. At a press conference on Wednesday, health officials revealed that the UK variant, known as B.1.1.7, and the homegrown New York City variant, B.1.526, now account for 51 percent of infections. The city’s pandemic response lab found B.1.526 … Read more
The highly contagious UK variant is rapidly spreading throughout Houston, Texas, a new analysis has found. On Monday, the Houston Health Department revealed the variant, known as B.1.1.7 was found at more than three-quarters of the city’s wastewater plants in samples collected February 22. This is 47 percent higher than the number of plants the … Read more
Houston, Texas, is the first city in the US to identify all of the major coronavirus variants spreading in the US, according to a soon-to-be-posted pre-print. Meanwhile, scientists in Florida identified the state’s first case of the South African variant over the weekend, meaning it has all three of the imported variants. Florida already had … Read more
Since the novel coronavirus was first discovered in Wuhan, China, in 2019, several variants have emerged from across the world. Most of the attention has been focused on highly contagious variants first identified in the UK, South Africa, and Brazil, all of which have since quickly spread. But a new homegrown variant, known as B.1.427/B.1.429, … Read more
The number of cases of the UK’s B117 coronavirus variant in the US is doubling about every 10 days, a new study estimates. It comes after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned that the variant could become dominant in the US by March – a message reiterated by the agency’s director Dr … Read more
At least 90 cases of the highly contagious ‘super-COVID’ variant from the UK have been identified at a prison in Michigan. Staff and prisoners have been undergoing daily coronavirus testing at Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility in Ionia after a staff member tested positive for the variant, known as B 1.1.7., last week. Of the 90 new cases, … Read more
BREAKING NEWS – South African ‘super-covid’ is in the US: Two South Carolina residents with NO travel history or link to each other test positive for highly-infectious variant Fauci warned may escape vaccines Two people in South Carolina are the first US cases of the South African variant Neither has a known history of travel … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: Brazil’s ‘super-covid’ arrives in the US: Minnesota resident becomes first American with highly-contagious variant that vaccines may not be able to protect against Minnesota health officials identified the first case of the Brazilian P1 variant in the US on Monday The Twin Cities resident recently traveled to Brazil and returned this month They … Read more
Even vaccinating 100 percent of the population may not be enough to eradicate COVID-19 once ‘super-covid’ variants become dominant in the US, a new study suggests. Because the more infectious variant means each new case leads to a greater number of cases, vaccines – even the most effective ones – may not be able to … Read more