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This weekend, the Louisiana Department of Health confirmed the state’s first identified case of the COVID-19 SARS-COV-2 variant frequently referred to as the U.K. variant because it is prevalent in
BATON ROUGE, La. — Today, the Louisiana Department of Health confirmed the state’s first identified case of the COVID-19 variant, SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7., frequently referred to as the U.K. variant because
Health experts believe current COVID-19 vaccines are effective against the variant strain.
Some COVID-19 tests in Yellowstone County are being checked for signs of a variant strain of COVID-19 first identified in the United Kingdom that may be more transmissible than other more widely circulating strains. The strain remained undetected in Montana as of Friday. It will probably reach Yellowstone County at some point, said Dr. Neil Ku, Billings Clinic infectious disease specialist. "There's likely a very good chance that's going to happen, unfortunately," Ku said, pointing to early efforts to isolate COVID-19 only to later discover the virus had been circulating more widely than w...