Will Coronavirus Variants Soon Dominate in U.S.?
email article The SARS-CoV-2 variant first documented in Britain could become the primary strain in the U.S. by March, researchers found. Despite only 76 infections with the variant, B.1.1.7 or VOC 202012/01, detected in the U.S. through Jan. 13, models predict it will crowd out other strains and become the most common cause of COVID-19 by March, according to Summer Galloway, PhD, of the CDC, and colleagues, writing in In addition to public health measures, they warned "enhanced genomic surveillance" will be necessary to track its spread. This variant is more transmissible, thanks to m...
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