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By Travis Caldwell, CNN
A woman receives the Covid-19 vaccine in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on Friday, January 15. (CNN)States are racing to get Covid-19 vaccine supplies and distribution in order as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Friday of more contagious variants of coronavirus potentially exacerbating the spread.
CDC officials implored Americans to continue with preventative measures against the coronavirus, while highlighting the variant first identified in Britain known as B.1.1.7.
The B.1.1.7 variant appears to more readily infect human cells and one CDC simulation of its transmissibility raised concerns that it could become the United States most dominant form of coronavirus by March.
U.S. vaccine strategy needs to hit reset : Ex-FDA director slams Operation Warp Speed as 27,000 COVID patients die in first 10 days of 2021 and daily death toll tops 3K while states THROW OUT unused shots
Former FDA director Dr Scott Gottlieb said he believes the country s current strategy for administering coronavirus vaccines is not working and urging public health officials to hit the reset button
Gottlieb says that in order for Americans to receive the jab faster all the doses of the vaccine should be released at the same time and not held back for people to receive a second dose weeks later