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has seen a surge of coronavirus cases across the country in the wake of the highly infectious delta variant.

The delta variant isn’t even the only variant to worry about.

The lambda strain, first detected in Peru, is now present in the U.S.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated this strain as a “variant of interest,” the designation beneath that of a “variant of concern,” like that of the delta variant.

Jen Kates, director of global health and HIV policy for the Kaiser Family Foundation, and Pekosz told The Hill that data on the lambda variant is limited at the moment, but what information is available suggests that it is similar to delta in that it is more transmissible than previously dominant strains like the alpha and beta variants.

At the same time, the lambda variant is not spreading as quickly as the delta variant?

“There's a lot that we do not yet know about the lambda variants, including compared to the delta,” said Leana Wen, an emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University.

All health experts who spoke with The Hill agreed that the biggest challenge that the U.S.

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