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Different variants of coronavirus in New York: what are the townspeople sick with

'03.03.2021'

Olga Derkach

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New York City health officials said on March 2 that the city already had a South African variant of the coronavirus. Edition New York Post spoke about the various mutations of the virus that are now spreading in the metropolis.

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“The number of New Yorkers vaccinated is increasing every day, so there is real reason to hope that the situation will improve. But there are also new COVID-19 variants in the city, ”said Dr. Dave Chokshi, head of the city's health department.

Two cases of a South African variant of the coronavirus called B.1.351 have been detected in New York, he said.

Over the week, the number of confirmed cases of the highly contagious British variant known as B.1.1.7 increased from 59 to 116 in New York, Chokshi said.

“The city will continue to test thousands of samples to find out more, and Department of Health officials are investigating the public health implications of these options,” Chokshi said.

Meanwhile, an emerging New York option - B.1.526 - is currently classified as an “option of interest,” Dr. Jay Varma, senior public health adviser to Mayor Bill de Blasio, said during the briefing.

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“We expect to receive preliminary responses to ours about the New York variant of the virus by next week,” Varma said.

He added: “If we find something alarming, we will tell you. If we decide that this variant of the virus will not matter much, we will tell you about that too. And if we are not completely sure, we will also inform you about it. "

“We will continue to do what we did, which is collecting data and using it to work together to combat this epidemic,” he said.

The New York variant of the coronavirus was first detected in the Washington Heights area of ​​Manhattan, but officials say it's unclear where it came from.

Varma considered the British, South African, and Brazilian variants to be “worrisome”.

“What makes a particular variant of the virus dangerous? If the modified virus cannot be identified with the help of tests, or it has changed so much that it escapes our antibodies, then this will lead to more serious illness and death, ”explained Varma.

Chokshi noted that health officials “are still studying the effectiveness of vaccines against these options, but research so far confirms that COVID-19 vaccines, cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), help reduce the risk of developing serious symptoms and of death.

As ForumDaily New York wrote earlier:

  • Local variant of coronavirus identified in New York caused concern of doctorsbecause it is supposedly capable of “hiding from antibodies” and avoiding the immune response of the human body.
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