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(Reuters) - A more contagious variant of COVID-19 that has swept through the United Kingdom has been reported in at least five states in the United States, National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins said in an interview to the Washington Post on Wednesday. We have now seen that same U.K. virus in the U.S. in at least five states and I would be surprised if that doesn t grow pretty rapidly, Collins said, adding that it doesn t howeverseem to be more severe.
Last week, Reuters reported that Florida became the third known U.S. state to identify such a case, with two other cases identified in Colorado and California.
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Jan 6 (Reuters) - A more contagious variant of COVID-19 that
has swept through the United Kingdom has been reported in at
least five states in the U.S., National Institutes of Health
Director Francis Collins said in an interview to the Washington
Post on Wednesday. We have now seen that same UK virus in the U.S. in at least
five states and I would be surprised if that doesn t grow pretty
rapidly, Collins said, adding that it doesn t however seem to
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(Reuters) -A more contagious variant of COVID-19 that has swept through the United Kingdom has been reported in at least five states in the U.S., National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins said in an interview to the Washington Post on Wednesday.
FILE PHOTO: Dr Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing in Washington, U.S., September 9, 2020. Greg Nash/Pool via REUTERS
“We have now seen that same UK virus in the U.S. in at least five states and I would be surprised if that doesn’t grow pretty rapidly,” Collins said, adding that it doesn’t however seem to be more severe.
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