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A new, highly mutated variant of COVID-19 is beginning to rear its head in Maryland and other states in the nation.
Doctors are calling it the cicada variant because of its latent rise after first being detected last year.
The variant is already making up about 30% of COVID infections in places like Eastern Europe.
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