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Agency data predicts U.K. variant will spread rapidly, intensifying urgency of vaccinations

CDC warns highly transmissible coronavirus variant to become dominant in U.S. Joel Achenbach What to watch next Replay Video UP NEXT The highly contagious variant of the coronavirus first seen in the United Kingdom will become the dominant strain in the United States within about two months, its rapid spread heightening the urgency of getting people vaccinated, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicted Friday in its most sobering warning yet about mutations in the virus. In every scenario explored by the CDC, the U.K. strain, which British researchers est...

America is 'flying blind' in detecting new coronavirus variants, experts warn ⋮ Officials have identified a new, more-contagious variant of the novel coronavirus in the United States and roughly 44 other countries, but experts worry that the United States and other countries have been slow to track the variant's spread—meaning they could be unaware of how widespread the variant already may be. A lack of tracking Officials first discovered the new variant, called B 1.1.7, in the United Kingdom in December 2020. Since then, officials also have detected the new variant in a small handfu...

Fauci warns there's a 'possibility' US has its OWN Super-COVID and says nation's infection curve now looks similar to UK's where one in 30 Londoners have the virus Dr Anthony Fauci said the idea of a new American variant was a 'possibility' because the curve of U.S. infections 'looks a bit like the curve in the UK' He said scientists researching the mutations need to provide answers about whether or not vaccines are protective against new strains Dr Deborah Birx warned last week that a new U.S. variant could be up to '50% more transmissible'   The CDC says it has no evidence that a mutant s...

Brenda Goodman is a senior news writer for WebMD. Andy Miller is editor of Georgia Health News. This article first appeared in WebMD. After 10 months of masks, social distancing, virtual school, fear for vulnerable loved ones, and loneliness, this is the news no one wanted to hear: The virus that causes COVID-19 has