The U.S. on Thursday broke five new pandemic records, including the seven-day average in daily cases, hospitalizations deaths
Despite scientists' insistence that mutated strains of the original SARS-CoV-2 virus had little significance, so-called "variants" discovered in the UK and South Africa have been found to be more infectious than the original.
And while vaccine makers insist that their jabs will be just as effective against these hyper-infectious strains, the reality is there isn't much data to comfortably back up these assertions.
And while the world waits to see just how effective the various coronavirus vaccines will be in practice, members of Joe Biden's coronavirus task force have warned that dangerous mutant strains that have yet to be isolated might already be spreading across the US.
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WNU Editor: I do not know if dangerous mutant strains that have yet to be isolated might already be spreading across the US. But I do know that the infection and death rates have sky-rocketed in the past few weeks .... Covid-19 Coronavirus Pandemic In The U.S. -- News Updates January 8, 2021.