COVID variant âspreads more easily,â says local infectious disease doctor
WWNY COVID variant âspreads more easily,â says local infectious disease doctor
By Lexi Bruening | January 19, 2021 at 2:14 PM EST - Updated January 19 at 7:45 PM
WATERTOWN, N.Y. (WWNY) - You may have been hearing about new, more infectious variants of COVID-19. In fact, one of them has been found in New York state already.
Itâs called the UK variant and itâs 50-percent more infectious. Within six weeks, experts believe it will be the more dominant strain of COVID-19 across the U.S., including here in the north country.
But an infectious disease doctor at Watertownâs Samaritan Medical Center stresses it isnât more or less dangerous than the strain going around now.