The Anime convention that took place last November and was tied to the second confirmed case of the COVID-19 variant was tied to a 22 case cluster of the variant, an investigation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention () finds.In early December, the first cases of the Omicron variant were detected in the U.S. weeks after the highly infectious, vaccine resistant, strain was first found by South African health officials.A Minneapolis man, who was first unnamed but later revealed himself to the media as Peter McGinn, 30, tested positive for the virus after attending the 53,000-person convention in lower Manhattan last year. After genetic sequencing, it was discovered that he had been infected with the Omicron variant.
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