The more transmissible coronavirus variant pummeling Britain has been detected in 45 countries and at least eight American states.

For years, public health officials called for routine genetic surveillance of viral outbreaks, but many countries — including the U.S. — are conducting only a fraction of the genomic studies needed to determine how prevalent mutations of the virus are. Above, a testing center in Newark.

The new variants only add pressure to speed up vaccine rollouts, both to keep caseloads from further skyrocketing and to protect as many people as possible before mutations undercut the vaccines’ efficacy. About 6.7 million people in the U.S. have received at least one of the two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine; more than 150,000 have gotten both.

Some states are expanding eligibility, though millions of people that were recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to go first — health care workers and nursing home residents — have yet to get their shots. See how vaccinations are going in your state.
Philip Cheung for The New York Times

5. A sustained surge of coronavirus infections has locked Southern California in a crisis. Above, a mobile testing unit.

Los Angeles County has a coronavirus-related death every eight minutes, and the city is on the threshold of one in 10 residents testing positive for the virus. Dozens of overcrowded emergency rooms have shut their doors to ambulances for hours at a time. Oxygen and the portable canisters to supply it to patients are low.

And in Chicago, some students are set to return to school on Monday for the first time since March. But it’s unclear how many of their teachers will be there to greet them: The mayor and teachers’ unions are locked in a bitter fight over whether to reopen classrooms.
The New York Times
Me: Note a previous article I posted about the disease which kills chickens which originates from a virus. The scientific community know that each time they produce a vaccine to beat a virus based disease, it makes the basic disease more virulent from the viruses it casts off and one vaccine injection is not enough to kill a virus or disease, because it is not strong enough to kill the disease, just stop it while it finds out ways to overcome or get past the vaccine through shedding, which it eventually does and then the new Coronavirus is even more deadly than the first one – as in the case with this one.
Vaccines are not the long term solution, while they only target the disease.
Surely, attacking the virus, while it is weak and unprotected and covered by a thin membrane it is easy to penetrate and kill, is a much better solution than the option of vaccines, because that does not protect anyone from the long term effects of Covid, which don’t work any more, when they can’t detect the a new version of Covid, in the body, at all.