White House COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci said U.S. scientists and other researchers are studying whether a newly discovered CCP virus variant can evade common vaccines, although he stressed that it’s not clear whether the new strain is currently spreading in the United States. On Friday, European countries signaled they would close off travel to certain southern African nations, including South Africa, due to the emergence of the variant. Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), told CNN on Friday that officials “don’t know that for sure right now” about whether the new CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus strain has the ability to evade vaccines. “We want to find out, scientists to scientists, exactly what is going on,” Fauci said. “But it’s something that has emerged in South Africa and seems to be spreading at a reasonably rapid rate, in the sense of when they do …