A new CDC MMWR report details how Colorado state public health officials expanded its statewide program to track variants after identifying the state’s first B.1.427/B.1.429 variant COVID-19 case.
This variant
is considered more infectious, may cause more serious illness, and may be less responsive to some treatments. Colorado’s program helped improve efforts to control variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 and guided clinicians treating patients with COVID-19. Learn more: bit.ly/MMWR5521b.
