What's the Deal with the New Strain of COVID-19 In the UK?
What's the Deal with the New Strain of COVID-19 from the UK? Shape 12/22/2020 Replay Video UP NEXT In December, a new and seemingly more contagious strain of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, began spreading in the UK. By January, health officials confirmed cases of the variant in several other countries, including the U.S. Now, a new study suggests that the strain — known as B.1.1.7. — is quickly spreading across the U.S. The study, which was posted on the preprint server, MedRxiv (but has yet to go through the peer-review process), analyzed roughly 500,000 COVID-positive te...