Highly contagious COVID variant first found in UK is now in California and Colorado, could change course of pandemic in US

"The overall picture is pretty grim."
—Bill Hanage, Harvard epidemiologist

New York Times, December 30, 2020

In Colorado and California, there are now two confirmed cases of that new and highly contagious coronavirus variant first identified in the UK. Neither of these two confirmed cases of COVID variant B 1.1.7 has a travel history, which suggests community transmission. — Read the rest