Likely more cases as Brazil COVID-19 variant detected in Salt Lake County
The CDC has only identified 54 cases nationwide. Now, the Utah Department of Health says a person in Salt Lake County who had traveled to Brazil has contracted the variant.
Jenny Johnson with UDOH, said:
We know that they’re here, and that there’s very likely that there are more cases of those variants than what we’ve found."
Johnson says the state doesn’t have the capability to sequence every positive COVID test to identify variants. So, there could be more cases. But, they’re strategic about sequencing.
Johnson said:
So we try try to sample those that have like a known travel risk factor. So if anyone has traveled to Brazil and they get a positive test, that’s one that we’re going to try to do genome sequencing on."
Which was how the Brazil variant was identified in a Salt Lake County resident who had traveled to Brazil. Now, contact tracing becomes key.
“Once we identify one, there definitely will be more,” said Tair Kiphibane, an infectious disease bureau manager with the Salt Lake County Health Department, and registered nurse.
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Kiphibane says once the variant strains have been identified, finding out who may have been exposed is important. She said:
Absolutely. We’re very vigilant about doing contact tracing, especially for variant cases. Just because we want to make sure we get a good handle on it basically. We want to make sure that we contain it."
Another piece to preventing the spread? Getting a shot. Nels Elde is a professor of human genetics at the University of Utah.
He says the vaccines on the market are still effective, even with the Brazil variant, sometimes called P1.
Elde said:
A lot of the initial tests of the vaccines, against some of the variants, including P1, are still looking really favorable. These are still effective vaccines."
Elde says you shouldn’t worry about which vaccine. “if you’re offered a vaccine, take it," he said.
And Johnson with UDOH agrees:
It’s really a race against time now with vaccines to try to get as many vaccines in arms as quick as we can so these variants can’t take hold and spread."
Other public health recommendations made throughout the pandemic, like mask wearing and staying home when your sick, are also key pieces to keeping variants from spreading.
The CDC has only identified 54 cases nationwide. Now, the Utah Department of Health says a person in Salt Lake County who had traveled to Brazil has contracted the variant.
Jenny Johnson with UDOH, said:
We know that they’re here, and that there’s very likely that there are more cases of those variants than what we’ve found."
Johnson says the state doesn’t have the capability to sequence every positive COVID test to identify variants. So, there could be more cases. But, they’re strategic about sequencing.
Johnson said:
So we try try to sample those that have like a known travel risk factor. So if anyone has traveled to Brazil and they get a positive test, that’s one that we’re going to try to do genome sequencing on."
Which was how the Brazil variant was identified in a Salt Lake County resident who had traveled to Brazil. Now, contact tracing becomes key.
“Once we identify one, there definitely will be more,” said Tair Kiphibane, an infectious disease bureau manager with the Salt Lake County Health Department, and registered nurse.
Kiphibane says once the variant strains have been identified, finding out who may have been exposed is important. She said:
Absolutely. We’re very vigilant about doing contact tracing, especially for variant cases. Just because we want to make sure we get a good handle on it basically. We want to make sure that we contain it."
Another piece to preventing the spread? Getting a shot. Nels Elde is a professor of human genetics at the University of Utah.
He says the vaccines on the market are still effective, even with the Brazil variant, sometimes called P1.
Elde said:
A lot of the initial tests of the vaccines, against some of the variants, including P1, are still looking really favorable. These are still effective vaccines."
Elde says you shouldn’t worry about which vaccine. “if you’re offered a vaccine, take it," he said.
And Johnson with UDOH agrees:
It’s really a race against time now with vaccines to try to get as many vaccines in arms as quick as we can so these variants can’t take hold and spread."
Other public health recommendations made throughout the pandemic, like mask wearing and staying home when your sick, are also key pieces to keeping variants from spreading.
The CDC has only identified 54 cases nationwide. Now, the Utah Department of Health says a person in Salt Lake County who had traveled to Brazil has contracted the variant.
Jenny Johnson with UDOH, said:
We know that they’re here, and that there’s very likely that there are more cases of those variants than what we’ve found."
Johnson says the state doesn’t have the capability to sequence every positive COVID test to identify variants. So, there could be more cases. But, they’re strategic about sequencing.
Johnson said:
So we try try to sample those that have like a known travel risk factor. So if anyone has traveled to Brazil and they get a positive test, that’s one that we’re going to try to do genome sequencing on."
Which was how the Brazil variant was identified in a Salt Lake County resident who had traveled to Brazil. Now, contact tracing becomes key.
“Once we identify one, there definitely will be more,” said Tair Kiphibane, an infectious disease bureau manager with the Salt Lake County Health Department, and registered nurse.
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Kiphibane says once the variant strains have been identified, finding out who may have been exposed is important. She said:
Absolutely. We’re very vigilant about doing contact tracing, especially for variant cases. Just because we want to make sure we get a good handle on it basically. We want to make sure that we contain it."
Another piece to preventing the spread? Getting a shot. Nels Elde is a professor of human genetics at the University of Utah.
He says the vaccines on the market are still effective, even with the Brazil variant, sometimes called P1.
Elde said:
A lot of the initial tests of the vaccines, against some of the variants, including P1, are still looking really favorable. These are still effective vaccines."
Elde says you shouldn’t worry about which vaccine. “if you’re offered a vaccine, take it," he said.
And Johnson with UDOH agrees:
It’s really a race against time now with vaccines to try to get as many vaccines in arms as quick as we can so these variants can’t take hold and spread."
Other public health recommendations made throughout the pandemic, like mask wearing and staying home when your sick, are also key pieces to keeping variants from spreading.