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LANSING, Mich. – Ingham County Health Officer Linda Vail says the new COVID-19 strain may have already made its way from the United Kingdom to the United States.<\/p>\n

The new variant is said to be so infectious, that it prompted British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to\u00a0cancel Christmas for millions<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Vail says the mutation is cause for concern and that more research needs to be done.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we\u2019re detecting it in the UK right now it\u2019s probably already been here and already is here,\u201d Vail said. \u201cWhat I\u2019m hearing right now and obviously this is all early on and is really not completely you know, really established is that it is a slight mutation that may increase the infection rate or the transmission but not the severeness of the illness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vail added that it\u2019s not uncommon to see mutations coming from viruses. Both Pfizer and Moderna are working with the new strain of COVID-19 to make sure their vaccines will still work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LANSING, Mich. – Ingham County Health Officer Linda Vail says the new COVID-19 strain may have already made…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nUK variant of COVID-19 may be in U.S. - Lansing Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/?p=3579\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UK variant of COVID-19 may be in U.S. - Lansing Report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LANSING, Mich. – Ingham County Health Officer Linda Vail says the new COVID-19 strain may have already made…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/?p=3579\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lansing Report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-12-26T14:46:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-12-28T14:46:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/4DDWSYNZFREKRKNMZ2IX3KWELU.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Theona Miller\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Lansing Report\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/?p=3579#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/4DDWSYNZFREKRKNMZ2IX3KWELU.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":675},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/?p=3579#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/?p=3579\",\"name\":\"UK variant of COVID-19 may be in U.S. - Lansing Report\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/?p=3579#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-12-26T14:46:28+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-12-28T14:46:34+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/#\/schema\/person\/6888a5f573aaec6c17a232d2cf444ab4\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/?p=3579\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/#\/schema\/person\/6888a5f573aaec6c17a232d2cf444ab4\",\"name\":\"Theona Miller\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3581,"href":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions\/3581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoriamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}