Florida has nearly half of well-known U.S. businesses

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. The Centers for Disease Control says Florida has nearly half of the known cases in the United States of a mutated and probably more contagious strain of the coronavirus.

This news comes after Florida again broke its previous one-day record of coronavirus cases and added nearly 20,000 infected people to the case load on Thursday.

The variant that emerged in Britain was found last week in a Martin County man in his 20s.

The CDC says Florida now has 22 cases of the mutated virus. California has 26 cases, Colorado has 2 and New York and Georgia each reported 1 case of the new variant.

The CDC’s map of cases caused by variants can be seen by clicking here.

The map does not break down provinces or specific locations in the state where the variant was reported.

Florida broke its record for the highest increase in COVID-19 cases two days in a row, with state health officials reporting 19,816 additional cases on Thursday after 17,783 new cases on Wednesday.

3,373 of the new cases confirmed Thursday in Florida were responsible in Miami-Dade County.

The World Health Organization says scientists first detected the British variant in September. Doctors are still investigating the variant, but it is believed that the vaccines Pfizer and Moderna are still effective.

Dr. Aileen Marty, an expert in infectious diseases at Florida International University, told Local 10 News earlier this week that studies comparing the blood of people who recovered from the original strain with the variant show that those who have developed good antibodies have antibodies. has what it looks like. to neutralize the new strain.

“Based on that, we are pretty confident that the vaccines currently, with the current new variant from the UK, will still be very effective,” she said. ‘We have to do studies with the people who had the vaccinations to be 100% sure about it, but it looks very, very good, as we already know that these vaccines provide a better immunity than even the virus. . ”

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