New York state Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced that three additional cases of the UK strain of the COVID-19 virus have been identified in New York. Two of the
Three more cases of the mutant U.K. coronavirus strain were found in New York state, including a case that appears to be "unrelated" to the first case Upstate, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday. Cuomo said two of the new cases were related to a Saratoga Springs jewelry store, where the first case was identified earlier this month. After an employee at the jewelry store was found to have the variant, the state's Wadsworth Laboratory sequenced the.
The lost: Capital Region lives ended by COVID-19
The pandemic has upended the nation, but its truest cost is felt by friends and families
Times Union staff
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558.
That s the minimum count of how many people, as of this writing, have succumbed to COVID-19 in the greater Capital Region.
In less than 10 months.
That is a wartime number a casualty list perhaps more in keeping with the recounting of Civil War regimental losses than of anything understood in the modern era.
Scientists who study the way the human brain processes big numbers say we’re not very good at it. The larger the number, the less we re likely to feel a strong emotional response to it.
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The coronavirus variant coming out of the United Kingdom is now popping up all over the world, from India to South Africa and nearby Canada. And now the first case has been detected in the United States, Colorado officials announced Tuesday afternoon. Health officials have warned that the variant – which was first found in the United Kingdom in September – was likely already in the country. “You really need to assume that it s here already, and certainly is not the dominant strain, but I would not be surprised at all if it is already here, Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert, said last week. Though the variant doesn’t seem to be more deadly, research has indicated it may be as much as 70 percent more transmissible compared with other versions of the coronavirus.