COVID-19 Variant Colorado Questions Answered
On December 30, Governor Jared Polis confirmed that the first U.S. case of a COVID-19 variant initially identified in the United Kingdom had been found in Colorado; the infected individual is a Colorado National Guard member who'd been deployed to help out at a nursing home in the small Elbert County community of Simla, approximately 48 miles northeast of Colorado Springs — a place where mask use continues to be lousy. Since then, the strain, known clinically as B.1.1.7, has turned up in at least three other states, as well as more than fifteen countries. While the variant is said to be fa...