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Yes, you can travel, but please don t: What s going on with the CDC s mixed messaging
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Travelers headed for Hawaii like these in line at SFO and just about anywhere else could be unsure about guidelines, given the mixed messages.Yalonda M. James / The Chronicle
To anyone following along the thrill ride of the pandemic from day to day, one thing is clear: There is a lot of uncertainty about the state of the coronavirus in the United States right now.
With national vaccination efforts picking up speed and a large swath of the U.S. population fully immunized, it’s both a hopeful and precarious time, public health experts say. The end is in sight but there’s plenty of time to screw it up and needlessly prolong the pandemic.
Why this new variant may be worrisome
The Stanford lab identified one confirmed case of the new variant and seven presumptive cases among samples from patients in the Bay Area, Pinsky said.
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None of the other variants being monitored by federal officials have the same combination of these two mutations, known as L452R and E484Q, the latter of which is closely related to a more well-known mutation known as E484K.
The L452R mutation became well known in California as one found in the California variant (B.1.427/B.1.429), resulting in a strain that is believed to make the virus more infectious and might cause reduced immunity in people who have been vaccinated.