COVID In Colorado: Appearance Of Brazilian Variant Making State's Medical Community ‘A Little Bit Jittery’

By Jesse Sarles, CBS Denver:

DENVER (CBS4)– Colorado health officials are once again reporting a rise in the number of COVID-19 variants in the state, and CBS4 Medical Editor Dr. Dave Hnida says one in particular has doctors on edge: the Brazilian (P.1) variant.

By midweek last week two cases of the P.1 variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus were discovered in Boulder County. Then by Friday, the state was aware of 12. They were also found in Denver, Broomfield and Arapahoe County. Colorado does not do sequencing of all COVID cases to determine genomic data that would show variant types, which means there could be other areas where it’s gaining a foothold.

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