President Biden, Officials Sound Alarm On Delta COVID Variant

Delta is on track to become the dominant coronavirus variant in the U.S.

Just as the threat from COVID seems to be fading in the U.S., President Biden and federal officials this week are sounding urgent alarms over a new variant. "This is a more virulent strain. This is like COVID on steroids," former White House adviser Andy Slavitt warned in an interview on CNN.  The CDC warns Delta will likely become the new dominant strain in the US. The highly contagious strain already makes up virtually every  new confirmed case in the U.K. and it's hitting young, unvaccinated people the hardest. Hospitalizations in the U.K. are peaking among 12-to-20-year-olds.