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US Covid cases pass 26 MILLION as South African mutation spreads to second state
Updated: 31 Jan 2021, 12:12
COVID cases in the United States have passed the 26 million mark as the new South African mutation has been found in another state.
The highly transmissible variant of the disease has now emerged in Maryland after first being detected in South Carolina.
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A Covid patient being treated in hospitalCredit: EPA
The US has now seen 26,012,880 coronavirus cases and at least 438,239 people have died according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
The sobering milestone comes exactly one year since the United States identified its first Covid-19 case on January 20 last year.
The claim: A professor at Cornell University said COVID 19 does not exist
In attempts to push claims that the coronavirus pandemic is a hoax, some social media users are sharing a lengthy statement that purports to be written by a professor at Cornell University.
A viral post claims Robert Oswald, a professor at Cornell University with a purported Ph.D. in virology and immunology and clinical lab scientist, tested 1,500 supposed COVID-19 samples in Southern California and found not a single case of Covid after testing them through a scanning electron microscope; only Influenza A and Influenza B were found in the samples.