{"id":117755,"date":"2020-12-29T17:22:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T01:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/colorado-health-officials-confirm-highly-infectious-coronavirus-variant-found-first-in-us"},"modified":"2020-12-29T17:22:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T01:22:16","slug":"colorado-health-officials-confirm-highly-infectious-coronavirus-variant-found-first-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/colorado-health-officials-confirm-highly-infectious-coronavirus-variant-found-first-in-us","title":{"rendered":"Colorado health officials confirm highly infectious coronavirus variant found, first in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/colorado-health-officials-confirm-highly-infectious-coronavirus-variant-found-first-in-us2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/west\/colorado\">Colorado<\/a> public health officials on Tuesday confirmed the first U.S. case of the new highly contagious strain of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/infectious-disease\/coronavirus\">coronavirus<\/a> that was first discovered in Britain weeks ago, prompting a new set of lockdowns there.<\/p>\n<p>A state lab informed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about the presence of the strain in a man in his 20s from Elbert County. He has no travel history and is isolating himself until cleared by public health officials, Gov. Jared Polis said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/stefanik-calls-cuomo-absolute-disgrace-for-prioritizing-drug-addicts-for-coronavirus-vaccine\">STEFANIK CALLS CUOMO \u2018ABSOLUTE DISGRACE\u2019 FOR PRIORITIZING DRUG ADDICTS FOR CORONAVIRUS VACCINE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado public health officials on Tuesday confirmed the first U.S. case of the new highly contagious strain of the coronavirus that was first discovered in Britain weeks ago, prompting a new set of lockdowns there. A state lab informed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about the presence of the strain in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}