Florida has almost half of the cases known in the US

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida. – The Centers for Disease Control say that Florida has almost half of the known cases in the United States of a mutant and probably more contagious coronavirus strain.

This news comes at a time when Florida again breaks its previous record of coronavirus cases in a single day, adding almost 20,000 infected people to its number of cases on Thursday.

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

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

The map of cases caused by CDC variants can be viewed by clicking here.

The map does not divide specific counties or locations within the state in which the variant was reported.

Florida broke its record for the largest single-day increase in COVID-19 cases on two consecutive days, with state health officials reporting an additional 19,816 cases on Thursday, after 17,783 new cases on Wednesday.

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

The World Health Organization claims that scientists first detected the British variant in September. Doctors are still researching the variant, but the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are still believed to be effective.

Dr. Aileen Marty, an infectious disease specialist 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 developed good antibodies had antibodies that also seem to neutralize the new strain.

“Based on that, we are quite confident that current vaccines, with the current new variant in the UK, will still be very effective,” she said. “We have to do studies with the people who took the vaccines to be 100% sure of that, but it looks very, very good, as we already know that these vaccines are producing better quality immunity than even for having contracted the virus. “

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