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It seems like Almost Yesterday that the U. S. military planned the first transcontinental test of United States military aircraft. Under the direction of General Billy Mitchell, the proposal was for 74 planes to fly from New York to San Francisco and back - to document the performance of a variety of military aircraft.
As of that time, no new infections had been confirmed by lab tests to be the Delta variant, the more contagious and severe mutation of the coronavirus that has caused COVID resurgences around the country and become the dominant strain. A separate test known as sequencing must be done on a virus sample to determine the variant. That s not to say that it may not be circulating, but clearly it would have to be sequenced and it would have to be verified by the lab, Gelman said.
The reemergence of the virus comes as just under 50% of the county s residents are fully vaccinated against COVID and the pace of new vaccinations remains slow, according to data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the state Department of Health.