Breaking: Colorado reports first U.S. case of COVID-19 variant

[ColoradoBlue]

On Tuesday, Gov. Jared Polis confirmed Colorado's first case of the COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7, the same variant discovered in the U.K. According to ABC News, this is believed to be the first known case of the variant in the U.S.

State public health officials report the patient is a man in his 20s, who is currently in isolation in Elbert County and has not traveled recently.

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Edited to add: Elbert County is rural with a small population. If it's there, it's everywhere.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Here we go. :(. nt

[Squinch]

2. Here we go. And they're fucking up the vaccine distribution.

[SheltieLover]

3. Of course!

They are repukes & want people sick, dead & our country destroyed!

[2naSalit]

7. I'm wondering how many doses have been absconded with...

For the crime family black market.

[RockRaven]

4. First *KNOWN* case. Other prior articles have indicated that the US has been doing a poor job

of surveillance. It is probably all over the country, just unrecognized.

[FreeState]

16. The surge in CA could be a result of it

It would not surprise me in the least. While I see lots of masks when I do go out (rarely) I commonly see house parties in the neighborhood with no masks and lots of people. Same think happened at Halloween time. We are in a world of hurt unfortunately.

[Hugin]

5. If it's in CO it is likely elsewhere in the US.

And, has been for some time.

[ColoradoBlue]

8. For sure

I just updated my post that it's not only Colorado, it's a rural county with a small population. This man also had no travel history. If it's there, it's everywhere.

[panader0]

6. Could it maybe have been discovered at The Lodge in Vail?

[BGBD]

9. Guys....

It's been here for months.

It's clearly already spreading at a community level in Elbert County, Colorado which isn't exactly a metropolitan area. If it's there we should assume, as I have been, that it's already in most communities throughout the country. When it comes to respiratory viruses you should just assume that if you hear about it in some part of the world....it's already in your part of the world too. Travel restrictions, temperature checks, testing, whatever do not work to stop a virus from entering. It will get through. All we can do is use measures to reduce the ability for it to transmit and try to keep the spread as low as possible until it's over.

The vaccines are going to work, but we are in the thickest part of the fight right now.

[Towlie]

11. No, the new mutated variety of COVID has not been there for months. It hasn't existed that long.

 
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[BGBD]

12. Tell yourself that.

B.1.1.7 was discovered in September....it's December. That's MONTHS. Also, it's crazy to think it was found immediately, much more likely it was circulating there for weeks before it was found. It takes magical thinking to believe that it didn't make it here around that same time and simply wasn't found until now rather than to believe that it suddenly appeared in rural Colorado.

[malaise]

10. Karachi Pakistan reported three cases today

All three came from England - they're doing tracing.

[Blues Heron]

13. We did this to ourselves

No planes should be flying at the moment. But yet, here we are, buses planes and trains and lot's of spit in the air = outbreak v 2.0 the duh-quell

[Renew Deal]

14. We're all gonna die

Sooner or later