New, more contagious coronavirus variants mean US must double down on mitigation, vaccination, CDC says
New, more contagious coronavirus variants mean US must double down on mitigation, vaccination, CDC says From CNN’s Maggie Fox The threat of new, more contagious variants of the coronavirus means the US must double down on efforts to protect people until a large number can be vaccinated, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. A variant first identified in Britain known as B.1.1.7 is being found in the US as well, and modeling indicates it could worsen the already terrible spread of the virus across the country, the CDC researchers said. “Multiple lines of evidence...