forecast published last month by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that warned of the variant becoming dominant in the country by March.Researchers of the new study echoed the CDC’s prediction of the virus variant, known as B.1.1.7, and warned of a surge of potential new cases and deaths without "immediate and decisive action." The researchers estimated that the transmission rate of B.1.1.7 in the U.S.
has been 35 - 45% higher than that of other strains and found it had doubled in frequency about every week and a half.The new study, posted Sunday on the preprint server MedRxiv and not yet peer-reviewed, determined that the U.K.