New coronavirus strain discovered in California as Fauci warns ‘super-Covid’ should spur you to get vaccine
A NEW strain of the coronavirus has appeared in California, and it's a completely different one from the highly contagious variant in the United Kingdom.
California's Department of Public Health said they are still testing if the new strain is highly contagious, which was found in multiple counties across the state.
"One, double down on the public health measures we've been talking about all the time," he continued. "Be very compulsive, as the president-elect says, at least for the first 100 days and maybe more, everybody wear a mask, keep the distance, avoid congregate settings."
"The easiest way to evade this negative effect of these new isolates is to - when the vaccine becomes available, people should get vaccinated," Fauci added.
CDPH also added that there were too few cases for any substantial sequencing.
"Because genomic sequencing is not done equally across the state or country, it is too soon to know how prevalent the 452 variant is statewide, nationally or globally," CDPH officials said.
Dr. Pan warned state medical providers late Sunday evening to stop administering the Moderna doses from one batch after less than 10 people developed allergic reactions to the shot at a neighborhood vaccination clinic.
Over 330,000 doses from the batch were sent to 287 providers across California from January 5 to January 12.
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“A higher-than-usual number of possible allergic reactions were reported with a specific lot of Moderna vaccine administered at one community vaccination clinic," Pan . "Fewer than 10 individuals required medical attention over the span of 24 hours."
"Out of an extreme abundance of caution and also recognizing the extremely limited supply of vaccine, we are recommending that providers use other available vaccine inventory and pause the administration of vaccines from Moderna Lot 041L20A until the investigation by the CDC, FDA, Moderna and the state is complete," she ended.