MSNBC refers to ‘Indian coronavirus variant’ after a full year of calling Trump racist for saying ‘China virus’

"First confirmed case of Indian coronavirus variant in U.S. found in California," MSNBC reported.

MSNBC and other major outlets are referring to this as "the Indian strain" of the virus, as it does appear to have originated in India. However, they refuse to say that the virus originated in China, despite overwhelming evidence to support it.

People have been taking notice of this and commenting on social media:

"I thought it was politically incorrect to state where the virus variant is from?"

"That works only for China."

Many major media outlets actually not only refused to even mention that COVID originated within China, but actually attacked people like Donald Trump for calling the virus the "China virus."

This article clearly shows MSNBC's stance on calling the virus the "China virus", although, once again, they obviously have no qualms about the "Indian Strain" in Mar. of 2021.

Or, for example, in this article, ABC News criticized Trump for simply tweeting "Chinese Virus" and went so far as to accuse him of fueling racism.

On Saturday, the first new case of a strain of COVID believed to have originated in Italy was in fact found in Stanford CA by researchers.

"We believe this is the first described case with this variant in the United States," said Lisa Kim of the Stanford Clinical Virology Laboratory.

Not much information is available about this particular strain except for the fact that it has two different specific mutations. In general, newer strains have been found, however, to be more contagious than their predecessors, although not necessarily more deadly.

It is also still thought that the new strains will be just as susceptible to the vaccines that are currently being distributed all over the world.

The state of California has the most recorded cases of the novel coronavirus (over 3.5 million), but that's at least partly due to its population. In terms of cases and deaths per capita, it ranks 33rd and 29th, respectively, according to WorldOMeters, in both cases coming in below the median line.