COVID XFG Variant Now Makes Up Vast Majority of Cases in US: CDC

COVID XFG Variant Now Makes Up Vast Majority of Cases in US: CDC

COVID-19 cases are increasing nationwide but remain lower than last year’s numbers, according to the most recent federal data, with a variant that emerged earlier this year making up the vast majority of U.S. cases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) variant tracking tool shows that for the period of time between Aug. 3 and Aug. 30, XFG made up around 78 percent of cases. The variant, which was declared a strain “under monito…