ByManny Otiko, California Black Media
Health care specialists, including several medical doctors, are keeping their eyes on coronavirus variants that some fear could lead to new strains of COVID-19 that could possibly undermine global efforts to vaccinate people and stem the global crisis.
According to the Centers of Disease Control, the B117 variant (first detected in the U.K.), the most threatening because of its prevalence, is the cause of 20% of new infections in the United States – and 30% of new infections in Florida.
Dr. Nirav Shah, Senior Scholar at Stanford University’s School of Medicine and chief medical officer of Sharecare, a health data services firm, says there are currently four different variants of COVID-19. He said the virus is adapting because “of evolution and natural selection.”