1st Case Of Brazil P.1 COVID-19 Variant Detected In Stanislaus County
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MODESTO (CBS13) The first case of the P.1 coronavirus variant that rose to prominence in Brazil has been detected in Stanislaus County.
Public health officials say the case is not believed to be travel-related.
“This is a reminder that these variants of concern are spreading, and new variants continue to be detected in Stanislaus County. The best way to protect ourselves from COVID-19 is to get vaccinated,” said Stanislaus County Public Health Officer, Dr. Julie Vaishampayan, in a statement.
The P.1 variant is of particular concern, health officials say, due to its set of mutations that could allow it to slip past antibodies created by previous infections. This makes the P.1 variant much easier to cause a reinfection.
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Oregon, Washington COVID Cases Surge. Can California Dodge the Latest Threat?
By Mark Kreidler
On 5/11/21 at 2:13 PM EDT
This story is co-published with Capital & Main
In a portrait of progress, it almost looked like a missing tooth. While the U.S. overall was experiencing a significant decrease in new COVID-19 cases, and once-troubled California dropped to the lowest case rate in the nation, two Pacific Northwest states took an abrupt turn in the other direction.
It wasn t subtle. In Oregon, weekly case counts of the virus more than doubled in a month, going from a seven-day rolling average of 419 on April 1 to 861 on May 1, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Washington state, meanwhile, saw its seven-day average shoot from 784 on March 22 to 1,405 just a month later.