The Indian variant of Covid-19 could be the dominant strain of the virus in the United States in just one week, according to disturbing new data.
The highly-transmissible strain – known as B.1.617.2 or ‘Delta’ – now makes up about 10 percent of US cases, up from just one percent less than a month ago, Outbreak.info claims.
‘When will B.1.617.2 (Delta) be the dominant variant in the US? Could be next week (or next 2 weeks) based on trends in our testing data & sequences available,’ researcher Alexandre Bolze wrote on Twitter Thursday.
The strain, which was first detected in India,…
