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Researchers in a University Hospitals lab have been tracking the U.K. variant of COVID-19 in the Cleveland area. This strain is reportedly more contagious and may have accounted for much of the U.S. s surge in cases in December.
Updated: 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021
The new, more contagious COVID-19 strain that originated in the U.K. has been discovered in Northeast Ohio, University Hospitals officials confirmed Wednesday.
Since December, UH researchers have been tracking emerging variants found in COVID-19 patient lab samples in Cleveland, including B.1.1.7, the variant that circulated widely in the U.K., officials said.
Updated: 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021
The new, more contagious COVID-19 strain that originated in the U.K. has been discovered in Northeast Ohio, University Hospitals officials confirmed Wednesday.
Since December, UH researchers have been tracking emerging variants found in COVID-19 patient lab samples in Cleveland, including B.1.1.7, the variant that circulated widely in the U.K., officials said.
“It is felt that at this time the variants represent a low proportion of COVID-19 circulating in Northeast Ohio,” said UH spokesperson Carly Belsterling.
The first variants found in Ohio to be reported publicly were announced in Columbus by Ohio State researchers two weeks ago, said Mark Cameron, infectious disease researcher at Case Western Reserve University. One of the variants mirrors one that originated in the U.K., known as B 1.1.7, and the other was a mutation first discovered in Columbus.