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Wednesday, 30 December 2020 - 8:13 A Colorado man in the USA has the variant of the coronavirus from the United Kingdom that health officials say is more transmissable than other strains of the virus. It is the first known case of the UK coronavirus variant in United States. Researchers from the UK estimated that the variant is 56% more transmissible. The man, who is in his 20s and in isolation in Elbert County, has no travel history, according to media reports. Many countries have banned flights from the United Kingdom with the identification of the new variant including Sri Lanka. India ha...

This. this h7n9 virus is called the bird virus but having trouble finding it in a lot of birds. that's worrisome. worrisome. when i talk to people at the cdc they see changes in this virus that put it on the path of going person-to-person. that's what you worry about for a strain that has pandemic potential. i'm glad the cdc is working on vaccines and diagnostic kits because you never know at this point which virus will make the turn and become dangerous and which one is going to go away. >> the things can be lethal. they can kill people easily, transmissable is the other thing where they spre...

Transmissable. and there could be around 60,000 cases and 850 days each day. joining us now to make sense of it is ted lieu, former obama white house health director and tim miller, writer at large for the bullwork. >> i have to start with you, my mind is blown. everyone is excited, everyone is saying it will be the most turnt summer ever and now we are facing another potential shutdown. do you think the country at this point will have a shutdown in october? or will we just get used to nearly thousand people dying every day? >> yeah, tiffany, you are in good company, a lot of our minds are blo...