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Shelby County Health Department confirms UK variant COVID-19 cluster within University of Memphis athletics program

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Wednesday, David Sweat with the Shelby County Health Department said there was cluster of more than 20 cases last month within the University of Memphis’ athletics program of the highly contagious, COVID-19 variant first identified in the United Kingdom. Wednesday, Local 24 News also learned area labs detected five times as many COVID-19 variant cases in February compared to January. “What you can assume is that they are all here, and it almost certainly more than the numbers that we are reporting, because we are only sequencing a small snippet of the population,” Dr. Scott Strome with the UT Health Science Center said. Dr. Strome said the good news is – to date – COVID-19 vaccines are still effective – to varying degrees – against the newly emerging strains.

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