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States are rolling back COVID-19 restrictions as new cases trend down from record highs across the country. But experts warn it might be too much too soon as variants pose an increased risk and the pandemic — almost at the one year mark in the U.S. — is far from over, NBC News reports.

Evidence is mounting that having COVID-19 may not protect a person against getting infected again with some of the new variants emerging around the world

NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci describes how large outbreaks of COVID-19 in a city can lead to new variations.

President Joe Biden is making passage of a new $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill his top priority, with Democrats wanting to vote next week, with or without Republican support. Republicans say the plan costs too much, and want to break it into smaller bills.

Novavax says its COVID-19 vaccine appears 89% effective, based on early findings from a British study.

A new study suggests that Pfizer/BioNtech’s coronavirus vaccine appears to work against new variants that have begun circulating in the U.S. The study has not been peer-reviewed or published in a medical journal.

Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. Rochelle Walensky provides an update on COVID-19 variants found in the U.S.

As more COVID variants are identified across the globe, health experts are suggesting upgrading masks with better filtration, or, if surgical masks are the only options, to “double mask” when out and about.

President Joe Biden is expected to sign new travel restrictions in a bid to control the spread of coronavirus in the United States. Restrictions will primarily target countries like South Africa, Brazil and much of Europe, where new strains of the coronavirus have emerged in recent days.

Massachusetts health officials early this week announced its first confirmed case of the new, more contagious COVID variant amid concerns that mutations to the virus could worsen the pandemic. While the state had only confirmed one case of the new variant, initially detected in the United Kingdom, health experts say it has likely been circulating in the state for weeks….

The first case of a COVID-19 variant initially found in the United Kingdom has been confirmed in Massachusetts, health officials said Sunday. The individual, a Boston woman in her 20s, came back to Boston on Jan. 3, where she remained at Logan International Airport for a two-hour layover before flying on to another state, according to the Boston Public Health…

Nearly one year into the pandemic, COVID-19 is spreading at record high rates in the United States, and with it, new variants of the virus are emerging. Last week, researchers in Ohio said they identified two unique variants in Columbus, NBC News reports.

New York joined a growing number of states on Monday to confirm the presence of a new strain of the coronavirus that’s believed to be at least 50 percent more contagious.

Gov. Charlie Baker says the new COVID-19 mutation is most likely already in Mass. and explains the state’s vaccine distribution timeline.

Scientists say there is reason for concern but not alarm about new variants of the coronavirus

Colorado Governor Jared Polis said Tuesday the COVID-19 variant first detected in the United Kingdom had been detected in Colorado. U.K. scientists believe the variant is more contagious than previous strains of the virus.

A Colorado man who became the first reported person in the U.S. to have a COVID-19 variant that is spreading in the United Kingdom hadn’t been traveling, health officials said Monday, triggering a host of questions about how the new strain showed up in the Rockies.