A more contagious variant of the coronavirus that was first identified in the United Kingdom late last year has been found in Illinois, state health officials announced Friday.
CDC modeling suggests the more infectious UK variant could be dominant in the US by mid-March
The report warned of a significant increase in cases due to the variant, but did not specify how many
More cases would overwhelm hospitals, resulting in more deaths CDC wrote
So far, at least 95 Americans in 15 states have the UK super-covid variant
More than 23 million Americans have had COVID-19 and nearly 380
Scientists say that the more coronavirus infections there are around the world, the more variants will emerge
With more cases, more will become chronic, long infections that give the virus an opportunity to mutate in ways that help it infect human cells and beat the immune system
A third homegrown variant of the coronavirus has U.S. by a team at Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Results show the earliest appearance of new variant, called 20C-US, was in Houston, Texas, in May 2020
Genome sequencing of the 57,000 U.S. samples uploaded to database GISAID revealed an uptick of the new variant in July 2020
Bachelor s Degree Center Releases National Rankings of Nuclear Engineering Degree Programs
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Jan. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Bachelor s Degree Center (
https://www.bachelorsdegreecenter.org/), a free guide to traditional and online bachelor s degree programs in all disciplines, has released four rankings of the best bachelor s in nuclear engineering degree programs in the US:
25 Best Bachelor s in Nuclear Engineering for 2021
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The Top 3 Best Nuclear Engineering Bachelor s Programs for 2021 are: 1) Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 2) Georgia Institute of Technology; 3) University of California, Berkeley. The Top 3 Online Nuclear Engineering Programs for 2021 are: 1) Michigan Technology University; 2) North Carolina State University; 3) University of Utah.
SIU research discovers new, dominant variant of U.S. COVID-19 virus
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CARBONDALE, Ill. – A team led by a researcher at Southern Illinois University Carbondale has discovered a new variant of the COVID-19 virus that is specific to and dominant in the United States, adding to the growing list of mutations such as those discovered in the United Kingdom and South Africa. It might be more easily transmissible than other variants, and its impact on vaccines is uncertain.
Keith Gagnon, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at SIU, said work in his lab has uncovered a novel U.S.-specific coronavirus variant that accounts for about half of the cases in the country. An article detailing the discovery, “Emergence and Evolution of a Prevalent New SARS-CoV-2 Variant in the United States,” was submitted on Monday, Jan. 11, to BioRxiv, a preprint server aimed at quickly disseminating research while it undergoes peer review.