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US could face 'perpetual' coronavirus infections as more contagious variants take hold, ex-FDA chief Scott Gottlieb warns

, including New York, Florida, and California, and the Center for Disease Control has recorded 74 cases of the variant., a variant first identified in South Africa, in the US right now, based on the genetic sequencing of positive coronavirus tests.

"These variants are now circulating, and they spread more easily even in the warm months when we really shouldn't have a lot of coronavirus spreading," Gottlieb said, appearing to reference a third variant that is spreading through Brazil in the country's summer months. "We could be facing a situation where we have perpetual infection heading into the spring and the summer, as these variants get a foothold here."

Gottlieb said that the number of deaths from COVID-19 — the disease caused by coronavirus — and the number of people infected could have peaked. But the numbers will probably continue to build in the coming weeks because there's a delay between people testing positive or becoming sick after they've initially been infected, he said.

Since the first COVID-19 case in the US on January 22, 2020, there have been more than 23 million people infected, and more than 380,000 deaths,

 

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