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British strain of coronavirus in the US may “cause further damage, including death” – Anthony Fauci

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The White House’s leading epidemiologist said that the new British strain of coronavirus is already present “in at least 20 U.S. states”

Anthony Fauci, pointed out this Sunday that after the data released by the United Kingdom Government, it must be assumed that the British variant of the coronavirus can “cause more damage, including death,” noting that the vaccine remains effective even against the South African variant.

“We have to assume now that what is circulating predominantly in the UK has a certain degree of increase in what we call virulence, that is, the power of the virus to cause harm, including death,” the US chief epidemiologist told CBS News’ Face the Nation program.

“The most recent data agrees with what the British say. We want to see the data for ourselves, but we have reason to believe it. They are a very competent group,” he added.

Fauci indicated that the British variation of the virus is “in at least 20 U.S. states”, and pointed out that the vaccines administered in the country, Moderna and Pfizer, “seem to continue to protect against the mutant strain.”

The official indicated that, although it has been observed that the South African mutation can “in some aspects” nullify the effectiveness of the vaccines, they are still within a “buffer level” that makes them effective against these variants.

“The best way to prevent further evolution of these mutants,” Fauci said, “is to vaccinate as many people as possible with the vaccines that we currently have at our disposal.”

The United States surpassed this Sunday, just over a year after it reported its first case of covid-19, the 25 million infected by the virus, and reached 417,538 deaths, which keeps it as the country most affected by the pandemic in the world.

According to the Johns Hopkins University count, the country counted 25,003,695 confirmed cases of the coronavirus at 10.55 am local time (15.55 GMT), 25.2% of the world total. In terms of deaths, the United States practically doubles Brazil, which with 216,445 deaths ranks second in the statistics of deaths caused by the virus.

The country is followed in number of cases by India, with more than 10.6 million, and Brazil, with more than 8.8 million.

US President Joe Biden launched last Thursday what he described as a “wartime” strategy to contain the pandemic, which includes mandatory quarantine for travelers arriving from abroad and the order to wear a mask on planes

In his first full day in power, the president focused on the most urgent challenge facing his government: a pandemic that has left more deaths in the United States than in any other country and has surpassed the number of American casualties during the War World II.

Biden has predicted that in February the country will exceed half a million deaths and in total, more than 600,000 will die.

New York, which was the epicenter of the pandemic in its first months, is the state with the most deaths from covid-19 (41,134), while California, with its nearly 40 million inhabitants is considered the fifth largest economy in the world, leads the contagion account, with 3.1 million and is the second where more lives have been lost (36,861).

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