Highly Contagious South African COVID Strain Reaches U.S. — Why It’s a Big Deal

There’s heightened concern today as a new, more contagious strain of the coronavirus has been discovered in the U.S. The variant first detected in South Africa has now been identified in two people in South Carolina. The two cases identified in South Carolina involve people who live in different parts of the state. They do not appear to be connected and neither person has traveled recently. Health experts are increasingly concerned about the South African variant because the COVID vaccines currently on the market may not be as effective against it. Top health officials are speaking in blunt terms about fears over this mutation of the virus.

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