CDC Director Says Community Spread Of South African Strain Is Here-NBC News

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday that the South African Covid-19 variant, which was just detected in two people in South Carolina, had already reached the point of community spread in the U.S. Walensky said sequencing of the virus has been "scaled up" under the new administration, meaning there's more of a chance to catch a new strain. Because the South African variant was detected on Thursday doesn't mean it just arrived since the U.S. has lagged greatly behind other countries in tracking changes in the virus by sequencing its genetic code. NBC News, 01/29/2021

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