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Andy Meek
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- The CDC has prepared a website with an interactive map helping people in the US keep track of where the more transmissible coronavirus variant strains are being identified around the country.
- The CDC's COVID-19 variant map currently tracks the new, more contagious strains from the UK, Brazil, and South Africa.
- The new strains are more infectious, but public health experts like White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci say they're not yet more deadly, at least not at the individual level.
According to the latest COVID-19 data from the researchers tracking the pandemic at Johns Hopkins University, there have been almost 26.4 million coronavirus cases identified in the US since the start of the pandemic. The number of coronavirus deaths, likewise, has now surpassed 445,000. Driving much of that activity now, and sparking growing scrutiny and concern among public health experts like White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, are the coronavirus variants that are multiplying around the US.
These now strains of the virus, from places like the UK and South Africa, are more transmissible -- albeit, at least so far, not more deadly. Not at the individual level, at any rate. The effect of these more contagious strains on populations as a whole, however, is more ominous. Even though the main worry for individuals is that it's easier to catch these new strains, logic follows that the more people who catch them, the greater the chance that someone in that new pool of people will develop a coronavirus infection that turns deadly. Which is why, at the population level, these new COVID strains are extremely worrisome.
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Wondering if one of the scary new COVID strains is near you? Check this map originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 3 Feb 2021 at 10:43:49 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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