 Three states, by the way, where the cases are rising to those levels, New Hampshire, Maine, and Connecticut. Now, the new variant is known as FLIRT. This variant is more transmissible than past variants. Health experts say, though, that COVID is not the threat that it once was. But just remember the signs of COVID. They include fever, chills, cough, muscle aches, loss of taste or smell. And the only way to know if you have it is you got to test for it. Because, again, you could be asymptomatic.