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NEW YORK — The highly contagious COVID-19 variant first found in the United Kingdom has surfaced just a few miles outside of New York City, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday. A 64-year-old Massapequa, Long Island, man was diagnosed with the variant strain on Friday, the governor said. Experts say the U.K. variant is more transmissible than the coronavirus strain already wreaking havoc in the United States. The Long Island man was one of three New Yorkers who tested positive for the new variant on Friday, bringing the total number of infected in the state to four. Two additional cases of the Brit......

The COVID-19 vaccines rolling out across the nation are lifting spirits over the holidays. But there's also budding concern about new strains of the virus that have been discovered in Great Britain, South Africa and possibly in Nigeria. Scientists say they are hopeful, but unsure, that the vaccines will repel the mutants. The variant found in Great Britain may be more contagious than the original virus. And it's unclear if the pathogens will take hold in the U.S., where nearly 19 million people have already been infected. There's lots of uncertainty because things are happening quickly. Resear......

A report from WKBW out of Buffalo, New York, says doctors are expecting a baby boom in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Doctors in the area told the local station they are seeing more pregnant patients and expect hospitals will be busy in the coming months. "Starting the first of the year, all the way through June, I think we're going to have a really big increase in deliveries," Dr. Maria Corigliano of Audubon Women's Medical Associates in Buffalo told the station. "Because what do you have to do but eat and procreate!" Corigliano said her practice delivers about 50 babies each month, bu......

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Although the coronavirus vaccines that began arriving a few days ago have brought a ray of hope, they're coming too late for the thousands of residents and workers at nursing homes in the Bay Area and across California who became infected during the deadly surge that has exploded the last several weeks. According to data published by the state, 12,491 residents and staff in skilled nursing facilities and assisted living centers were sick with COVID-19 as of Thursday. That includes hundreds in the Bay Area, where some long-term care facilities have seen large outbreaks. A ski......

CHICAGO — A record number of Illinois nursing home residents with COVID-19 died in the past week, as people in long-term care try to hold out until they can get vaccinated against the virus. An unprecedented 605 resident deaths were attributed to COVID-19 in the past seven days, state figures showed Friday — far more than the previous high of 480 two weeks ago. The number of recorded new infections in the state’s long-term care facilities also set a record with 5,063 new cases, surpassing the previous high of 4,536 from two weeks earlier. This second surge of the virus again exceeds the worst ......