Just over a month since investigators from the UK warned about the emergence of a new, more transmissible SARS-CoV-2 variant, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigators have cautioned that this new variant will predominate across the United States by the month of March.

As of January 13, the B.1.1.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2 was identified in 76 cases across 10 states in the US, reported researchers in an early release of the CDCs Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). Modeling predicts rapid growth of the variant in early 2021.

CDC researchers have stressed on the measures to control the pandemic, especially considering the B.1.1.7 variant, including wearing masks, practicing social distancing, hand hygiene, isolation, and quarantine measures… (Medscape)