In Florida, a mutation of a strain of COVID-19 believed to be from Brazil was detected, the ministry of fitness said last week.
The Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that so far there have been two cases of the so-called P2 variant in the state, one in a 74-year-old man and one in a 51-year-old man. be a slight mutation of the Brazilian strain that has angered the country’s fitness government for months.
The strain mutation is a specific fear for the authorities, which experts say allows it to reinfecte patients who in the past had milder instances of COVID-19 and have developed antibodies, adding to other younger people who have treated weaker or asymptomatic instances of the disease.
“We have two cases in Florida that have the extra mutation, and what that means is to be seen,” Marco Salemi, a professor at the University of Florida’s Institute of Emerging Pathogens, told The Sun-Sentinel. 500, will be worrying. “
“We don’t know if the new mutations will make existing variants more or less aggressive, which is why we have other people around the world who actively follow them,” Salemi told the newspaper.
Approximately 40% of Florida’s population was empned last week. The state still registers thousands of new COVID-19 instances consistent with the day, well below the peak reached in early January.
The P1 variant, from which P2 would have mutated, was first discovered in the United States in January, when a Minnesota resident who had returned from the country became infected.
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