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More contagious coronavirus variant from UK is doubling every 10 days in US, new study warns

People wait in line in a Disneyland parking lot to receive Covid-19 vaccines on the opening day of the Disneyland Covid-19 vaccination site in Anaheim, California.The extra transmissible UK coronavirus variant is spreading quickly in the US, a new study says. The researchers urged the US to monitor virus variants better to avoid"devastating consequences.

"These findings show that B.1.1.7 will likely become the dominant variant in many US states by March, 2021, leading to further surges of COVID-19 in the country, unless urgent mitigation efforts are immediately implemented," the report's authors wrote. The research, funded by the US Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, supports the

late last month that B.1.1.7 will become the"predominant variant in March." The report was compiled by researchers from several institutions and the lab testing company Helix.are growing at roughly 7% per day nationally, slightly slower than in European countries including the United Kingdom, where the growth rate is 10.4% per day.

The new, more contagious strain and the resulting surge in cases caused UK officials to institute a lockdown, which is still ongoing. UK officials

 

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