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9-24-2021 3:45am
Str8 Out of Kentucky: COVID Virus Version R.1 Lands in Georgia
S RENEE GREENE
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The R.1 variant, now in Georgia, was first detected in the U.S. in a Kentucky nursing home in March. The CDC says it infected 25 percent of the vaccinated residents - most of the nursing home's patients had been vaccinated.
This variant appears to have initiated somewhere in Japan.
"That's the first warning, that there was a virus that spreads through a fully-vaccinated population," said William Haseltine, Ph.D., a COVID-19 researcher and former Harvard Medical School professor.
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