(AP Photo/John Locher) (CN) — A National Guard member deployed to aid a rural Colorado nursing home has been identified as the first American known to contract a particularly contagious variant of Covid-19. “This is unlikely to be the first person with the variant here in the U.S., there are likely many in the northeastern part of the state, but I’m proud our scientists have identified it,” said Colorado Governor Jared Polis in a video conference Wednesday. “There is a lot we don’t know, but of course our scientists here and in the United Kingdom are studying and monitoring this variant,” Polis added.