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CDC reviewing new data that suggests coronavirus variant identified in UK could be more deadly
“The CDC has reached out to UK officials and is reviewing their new mortality data associated with variant B.1.1.7,” a CDC official told CNN Saturday, using the scientific name for the variant first spotted in the UK in November.
While the data is not conclusive, Johnson said … Read More
Dr. Sanjay Gupta: The United States’ one-year coronavirus checkup
Today marks one year since the announcement of the first patient with Covid-19 in the United States. It happened in Washington state, where a male in his 30s who had just returned from visiting Wuhan, China, started experiencing symptoms and quickly sought help at a...
CDC still working on goal to double coronavirus sequences to expand hunt for mutations
At the beginning of the year, a senior CDC official told CNN he hoped over the next two weeks that the agency would more than double the number of coronavirus genomes being sequenced in the US per week. While the number of sequences did increase over those two weeks,...