Pediatric doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine sit on a table at National Jewish Health on Nov. 3, 2021 in Denver, Colorado.Michael Ciaglo | Getty Images NewsThe U.S. has not found any cases of the new omicron Covid variant so far, the CDC said late Friday, referring to a heavily mutated strain of the virus…
“No cases of this variant have been identified in the U.S. to date,” according to the statement by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“CDC is continuously monitoring variants and the U.S. variant surveillance system has reliably detected new variants in this country. We expect Omicron to be identified quickly, if it emerges in the U.S.,” it said.
However, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told NBC’s Weekend TODAY show on Saturday that he “would not be surprised” if the omicron variant is already in the U.S.
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