Brazil COVID Strain Comes to the U.S.

For anyone stupid enough to think that President Jair Bolsonaro is Brazil’s problem and not ours, the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported yesterday that the more infectious Brazilian strain of the coronavirus is now the second most common variant in the U.S., after the Kent one. The CDC has identified 434 cases of the Brazilian strain, mostly in Massachusetts, Illinois and Florida. But, as the Daily Mail reported in its coverage, the CDC’s “count is inevitably an underestimate as cases of the variant can only be confirmed with laborious genome sequencing.”