While widespread COVID-19 vaccination initiatives bring hope to communities, variant mutations of the disease pose the next great challenge for the health care sector. Today, three variants of the virus from the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil have begun to spread across the U.S. While the vaccines are still effective against these mutations, the variants can be more easily spread between people. [Included is] more on what we know so far, as well as what legislators, health care providers and the broader scientific community are doing to tackle the new COVID-19 variants.

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