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With multiple faster-spreading strains of COVID-19 now circulating in the U.S. while the country continues to struggle to contain the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Centers for Disease Control are urging Americans to skip the usual parties on Super Bowl Sunday.
As the Tampa Bay Buccaneers prepare to face off against the Kansas City Chiefs, the U.S. is still seeing an average of 140,000 new COVID-19 cases a day and around 3,000 deaths, and three highly contagious strains first identified in the U.K., Brazil and South Africa have now been found in the country.