US may already have hundreds of cases of new coronavirus strain, claim researchers

new strain of virus found in United Kingdom may have alrey infected many people in United States, researchers claim. While speaking to CNN, Michael Worobey, who is he of department of ecology and evolutionary biology at University of Arizona, said that UK strain of COVID-19 most likely arrived in US in mid-vember. He ded that he believes that hundreds of people probably have alrey been infected and it's also “very possible it arrived multiple times in multiple places”. 

Countries across globe have alrey shut ir borders to Britain due to fears about highly infectious new coronavirus strain. With over 1,000 cases of variant discovered in UK, scientists are puzzled to determine if variant, named as VUI-202012/01, represents an increased health risk especially when some nations began ministering COVID-19 vaccines among people. 

While speaking to media outlet, ar professor from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Trevor Bedford, also reiterated Worobey’s claims and said that many infected travellers who left London may have been unkwingly even carrying strain, which is way more infectious than first strain. Worobey and Bedford said that y estimate virus would have arrived in United States in mid-vember. Both scientists furr also scorned genetic sequences of coronavirus in US to see if any match up UK variant. 

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Dr. Fauci ‘t surprised..’

So far, y haven't found any, however, y have said that it is likely US surveillance system isn’t catching m. On Monday, US top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci h also said that new COVID-19 variant linked to drastic surge of cases in UK has probably alrey reached United States. director of National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease said that people have to “make that assumption” considering travel that was permitted throughout world and cases of new strain are hiked in UK, South Africa. refore, Fauci concluded that he would ‘t be surprised’ if variant has alrey reached US. 

“You have to make that assumption,” Fauci said. “When you see something that is pretty prevalent in a place like UK, re are also mutations that we're seeing in South Africa, and given travel throughout world, I would t be surprised if it's alrey here.”

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