I have the 'Citizen' safety alerts application on my iPhone and I noticed a notification stating:
B.1.1.7 Now Dominant in U.S. The more contagious COVID-19 strain is spreading fast, officials warned today.
It's spreading to Ohio, my state.
CLEVELAND — For months health officials nationally and across Ohio have been warning the public about the COVID-19 variants. They're cautioning people to take them seriously as many of them are more contagious than the strain that we've been dealing with for a year.
Currently, there are 61 cases of the U.K. variant in Ohio, also known as the B117 variant. That's up from the 33 cases reported Sunday.
Here's an article about it from abcnews.go. Here's an archived version of the page incase the site ever goes down or if you wanna get past any annoying javascript. I was wondering what are some key differences with this variant and, I guess, the original COVID-19? I figured that variants are technically coming out all the time since the virus evolves. What makes this one more contagious? What makes thie more dangerous, if it is more dangerous (it's already dangerous as it is but I'm just curious).
B.1.1.7 Now Dominant in U.S. The more contagious COVID-19 strain is spreading fast, officials warned today.
It's spreading to Ohio, my state.
CLEVELAND — For months health officials nationally and across Ohio have been warning the public about the COVID-19 variants. They're cautioning people to take them seriously as many of them are more contagious than the strain that we've been dealing with for a year.
Currently, there are 61 cases of the U.K. variant in Ohio, also known as the B117 variant. That's up from the 33 cases reported Sunday.
Here's an article about it from abcnews.go. Here's an archived version of the page incase the site ever goes down or if you wanna get past any annoying javascript. I was wondering what are some key differences with this variant and, I guess, the original COVID-19? I figured that variants are technically coming out all the time since the virus evolves. What makes this one more contagious? What makes thie more dangerous, if it is more dangerous (it's already dangerous as it is but I'm just curious).
