Florida’s COVID-19 variant cases have doubled, CDC says – WPLG Local 10

Florida has twice as many confirmed cases of a COVID-19 variant as last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in new numbers released Monday, raising concerns that a more contagious strain is spreading.
The latest CDC data shows 293 confirmed cases of COVID-19 caused by variants in the United States. Of those, 92 are in Florida which is twice as many as the 46 cases that were confirmed in the state as of last week.
The CDC does not specify the locations of those cases within…