Colorado health officials on Tuesday confirmed the first case of a new and potentially more infectious strain of COVID-19 in the United States.
The new strain, which appears to spread faster than other forms of the virus, first was identified earlier this month in Britain and South Africa.
Early research on the strain indicates it’s at least partly to blame for a recent spike in cases in both countries.
“Today, we discovered Colorado’s first case of the COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7, the same variant discovered in [Britain],” Colorado Gov. Jared Polis tweeted.
“The health and safety of Coloradans is our top priority and we will monitor this case, as well as all COVID-19 indicators, very closely.”
The infected individual is in isolation in Elbert County, south of Denver, according to Polis.
Health officials said the man, who is in his 20s, has no history of travel to Britain or South Africa.
The new strain has also been spotted in France, Spain and Sweden, according to officials in those countries.
Colorado health officials said they have notified the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which said earlier this month that the strain already could be circulating across the country due to travel.
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Thank you Dr. Fauci for help funding the Wuhan lab in communist China. Also, on Laura Ingraham’s show, you stated that you believe all of your scientist and Doctor friends in the lab in Wuhan. Of course a communist party member, in the Wuhan Lab, is telling those Doctors and scientists what to say. Dr. Fauci, you are one of the most admired men in America. Traitor!
I wonder, will those vaccines TRUMP Pushed to get, do a damn thing to this new ‘harsher strain’??
Does anyone else see a correlation between the “arrival” of this new “variant”, and the take over of the government by the democraps? Could it possibly be the need for a new reason to shut down every small business, completely destroy the economy, and strip the American people of their freedoms? So far, there is nothing but speculation, with no basis in fact, about this “new variant”, yet the scare tactics have already begun.
I guess the Chinese want to be politically correct so they sent us a brown version to match the white one or a white one to match the brown one, with the new one more viral and as spreadable as socialism and political correctness, just as destructive, in what is OBVIOUSLY a Chinese planned attack of targeted germ warfare upon the good old USA. Strange that it is only the Anglo-Saxon run nations of USA, Britain and South Africa, that becomes the point of their spear? Too many coincidences that line up to define an attack than random chance could explain, just like our election that was also an attack by the Chinese to get a President in place they have already bought and paid for, and have enough information of the corruption to blackmail the bejabbers out of.
How come we get absolutely NO information about the hundreds of thousands and potentially millions of Chinese infected or dying which by shear statistics should be 4-5 times larger in population than America. Is that not news? Where is the media coverage, and if there is none guess who also has been bought out by the Chinese in tens of millions of laundered money, board jobs, or promises of doing a large amount of company business in China up to, and to the time they can steal all the American manufacturing secrets, medical equipment monopolies, and secret military products that now or are about to get manufactured in China? Only a blind person could not put the dots together.
You are right, If the person did not travel and they know who he was around then how did he get it?
Just asking.
MANY here, was saying “Just wait till they get in office, we’ll see NEW more potent strains come out…”
This really is strange. This young man is from Simla, CO, a little more than 100 miles east of Denver, with a population of less than 700 people. He works in an assisted care facility.
Ah, more info coming out as I type. Apparently, National Guard were deployed to this facility due to staff shortages. Apparently, the guardsmen are implicated in the transmission but they don’t know if the guardsmen brought it there or caught it there. Now, all this is from a Polis news conference taking place at this moment. Take it for what it’s worth.
Polis just announced that Colorado will start vaccinations for people over 70 this week as the earliest groups are just about finished up.
wow… 70 people, in a state that has what.. 5 mil???
the china virus was an intended weapon of mass destruction they sent it to every country after seeing
what it can do to there own people.
the rest of the world including the u.s.a. should be declaring war on them for this biological weapon used to kill people all over the globe.
what ever happend to that doctor that was on fox news w/tucker carlson who said she had bonified evidence of this weapon?
Been silenced, most likely.