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Update (December 31): California officials announced a case of the variant in a 30-year-old San Diego County man who had not traveled outside the country, suggesting the virus was transmitted by someone else in the community. A household contact has also developed symptoms, officials said, and is being tested. Trevor Bedford, an evolutionary virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle tells The New York Times that he expects a similar trajectory of the variant in the US as in the UK: the variant accounts for few cases now, but might constitute the majority of cases in a few months, due to its increased transmissibility.
Colorado officials yesterday reported the first known US case, followed by an additional suspected case today (December 30), of the COVID-19 variant that has swept across the UK, leading dozens of countries to restrict UK arrivals. Although the variant appears ...
