Fourth Surge May Be a Second Wave
The CDC announced on April 7 that a coronavirus variant first detected in the U.K is now dominant in the U.S. "In some ways, we're almost in a new pandemic," said one prominent public health expert earlier about the more transmissible variant.
April 12, 2021, 7am PDT | Irvin Dawid
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"B117, the coronavirus variant first detected in the United Kingdom in December, is now the most common variant in the United States, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH," reported Stephanie Soucheray for CIDRAP News on Wednesday, April 7.