The White House warned governors about the “US variant” of COVID-19, but no such discovery has been made.

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pushed forward reports from the White House coronavirus task force warning states of a more transmissible “American variant” of coronavirus, a misperception that began in a call with governors, an administration official told CNN. .

Governors ’call officials were discussing whether the steep slope in coronavirus cases may be due to a potential U.S. variant similar to a variant first identified by genetics experts in the UK.

But the official made it very clear that U.S. health officials have not determined that an American variant of the virus exists. It has been debated whether U.S. health officials should investigate whether an American variant exists and make that identification. But so far, the official warned, no such identification has taken place.

Warnings about the variant turned it into January 3 written reports that were sent to states and obtained by CNN. Reports warned of the possibility of a “US variant” of COVID-19.

“This fall / winter rise has been almost twice the rate of increase in cases than spring and summer. This acceleration suggests that there may be a U.S. variant that has evolved here, in addition to the variant of the UK that is already spreading to our country. communities and may be 50% more transmissible, “CNN reports said, calling for” aggressive mitigation … to match a much more aggressive virus. “

The pandemic continues to rage as the nation has focused its attention on the U.S. Capitol insurgency and certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, and the task force has continued to warn states of “community outreach. aggressive “after the holiday season.

“The United States remains on a plateau of 140-150,000 confirmed and suspected COVID admissions per week and a total of 120-125,000 hospitalized patients. Significant continued deterioration, from California through the solar belt to the southeast, the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, despite low test rates over the holidays, suggest an aggressive spread by the community, ”the working group reported.

Working group reports also called for outpatient monoclonal antibody treatment infusion sites “immediately available to save lives.”

And while the nation struggles to quickly immunize Americans, reports said vaccines “must be put to arms now.”

“Do not delay the rapid vaccination of people over 65 and vulnerable to serious illness; we recommend the creation of high-performance vaccination sites with the use of EMT staff to control possible anaphylaxis and make full use of nursing students. There are no vaccines in freezers, they are being put to arms now, active and aggressive immunization against this wave would save lives, “the reports said.

This week, California is the state with the most new cases per 100,000 population, followed by Arizona, Kansas, Tennessee, Rhode Island, Utah, Arkansas, West Virginia, Georgia and Massachusetts in the top ten.

The positivity of the test, an indication of the increase in cases to come, is highest in Oklahoma, followed by Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama.

Arkansas has the most hospital admissions per 100 hospital beds, followed by Arizona, Maryland, Oklahoma, Georgia, Kentucky, California, the District of Columbia, South Carolina and New Mexico.

And Kansas is the one that records the deaths of more than 100,000 people, followed by Wyoming, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Arkansas, Indiana, Mississippi, Arizona, Tennessee and Rhode Island.

This story has been updated to reflect the warnings of White House coronavirus working group reports on the CDC’s “U.S. variant.”