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DPH: New COVID variant cases could mean wider exposure in CT
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Medical personnel work in Hartford HealthCare’s new drive-through COVID-19 testing sight inside the parking garage adjacent to the Arena at Harbor Yard, in Bridgeport, Conn. Jan. 25, 2021.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
Four new cases of an infectious COVID variant reported over the weekend could indicate the strain is more widespread in Connecticut, the state Department of Public Health said.
Connecticut health officials have now recorded 20 cases of the variant, known as B.1.1.7, including the new cases reported Saturday.
Prior to Saturday’s announcement, which came in the form of an alert sent by the agency ahead of Super Bowl Sunday, all of the state’s B.1.17 cases had been found in New Haven County. But two of the latest cases were found outside New Haven County.
Updated on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the page currently shows that 22 cases of the United Kingdom variant have been identified in Illinois. No cases of the South Africa or Brazil
Classified report finds slow, chaotic response to brain injuries affecting diplomats in Cuba
Karen DeYoung, The Washington Post
Feb. 10, 2021
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More than four years after personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Havana began reporting sudden, debilitating illnesses, with severe headaches, hearing loss and other brain injuries, there are still no definitive answers as to what caused the outbreak.
The Trump administration did not reveal the incidents until they appeared in news reports many months later. Despite the State Department s initial reticence to assign blame, President Donald Trump quickly labeled the Cuban government guilty of attacks on the diplomats, charges that were used to buttress his administration s reversal of much of the Obama era s normalization with Cuba.