The White House Coronavirus Task Force has found that an indigenous “American variant” of the virus may have emerged in the United States and is up to 50 percent infectious.
NBC reports that according to documents obtained by the media, the White House Coronavirus Task Force’s January 3 report revealed that Wuhan pneumonia may have evolved in the United States, forming a new variant, and that in addition to the U.K. variant, this U.S. variant (USA variant) has spread in the community and is 50 percent more infectious.
The White House Task Force on Armed Lung emphasized that aggressive suppression measures must be used to combat the more aggressive virus, and that without uniform implementation of effective measures such as wearing masks (two or three layers and appropriate) and strict requirements to maintain social distance, the outbreak could rapidly worsen as these variants spread and come to dominate.
CNBC reported that Jason McDonald, a spokesman for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), responded that there are various Wuhan pneumonia variants around the world, and that there is a “strong possibility” of an indigenous variant in the United States and a “high probability” of a U.S. variant, but it could take weeks or months for officials to identify a specific strain of the virus that is causing the outbreak in the United States to heat up as quickly as it is in the United Kingdom.
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