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US CDC warns new COVID variant could be dominant strain by March – Al Jazeera English
The US CDC says a more transmissible COVID-19 variant first discovered in the UK has been found in 10 states.
A new, more transmissible variant of the coronavirus first discovered in the United Kingdom has been detected in 10 US states, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said, warning that it could become the dominant circulating variant in the United States by March.
The variant, known as B.1.1.7, is believed to be twice as transmissible as the current version of the virus circulating in the US, but so far, there is no evidence that it causes more severe illness or is transmitted…
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