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Massachusetts and Delaware are also analyzing suspicious virus samples for the variant, said Dr. Greg Armstrong, who directs genetic sequencing at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He said the CDC is working with a national lab that gets samples from around the country to broaden that search, with results expected within days. The discovery of the new strain in the U.S. has added urgency to the nation’s vaccination drive against COVID-19, which has killed more than 340,000 Americans. Britain is seeing infections soar and hospitalizations climb to their highest levels on record...

Credit: Graphic shows a diagram of the COVID-19 virus, AP California on Wednesday announced the nation’s second confirmed case of the new and apparently more contagious variant of the coronavirus, offering a strong indication that the infection is spreading more widely in the United States. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the infection found in Southern California during an online conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “I don’t think Ca...

Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images SAN DIEGO – California has reported its first case of a more contagious COVID-19 variant first identified in the United Kingdom – the second confirmed case in the U.S. Gov. Gavin Newsom, speaking in an online conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, said the case was confirmed in Southern California Wednesday afternoon. During a Wednesday afternoon briefing, San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher said a 30-year-old man in the county with no travel history tested positive for the new strain on Tuesda...

LONG FIGHT Fauci warns life won’t return to normal until FALL next year as more contagious ‘super-Covid’ strain will flood US Updated: 1 Jan 2021, 4:27 DR Anthony Fauci warned that life won’t return to normal until fall of next year as a mutant strain of Covid-19 is set to sweep the US. Fauci participated in an online discussion of the pandemic with California Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday and acknowledged the highly contagious strain had emerged in CA and Colorado. 12 Dr Anthony Fauci said the vaccines would help the country return to normality in Fall 2021Credit: Getty Images ...

Britain is seeing infections and death rates soar as hospitalizations climb to their highest levels on record  The country on Wednesday recorded its deadliest day since April with 981 COVID fatalities and 50,000 cases Now the US must try to curb the same mutant strain which researchers estimate is up to 70% more contagious California became the second state on Wednesday to report finding the new strain of the virus after Colorado Fauci on Thursday said it is 'inevitable' the new COVID-19 strain will spread across the US, warning:  'You'll be hearing reports from other states and more cases ...