Published 1 year ago

Omicron offshoot XBB.1.5 could drive new Covid-19 surge in US

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XBB.1.5 has more than doubled its share of the COVID-19 pie each week for the last four. In the Northeast, the CDC estimates, XBB. 1.5 is causing 75% of new cases. It is the product of recombination: Two descendants of BA.2 swapped pieces of their genetic code.

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The Guardian

Could new Omicron variant XBB.1.5 fuel further Covid infections?

The offshoot accounts for 40% of Covid cases in the US, raising fears of fresh waves of illness as it spreads to other countries

1 year ago·London, United Kingdom

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CNN

Omicron offshoot XBB.1.5 could drive new Covid-19 surge in US

The CDC estimates that XBB.1.5 has more than doubled its share of the Covid-19 pie each week for the last four, rising from about 4% to 41% of new infections over the month of December.

1 year ago·Atlanta, United States

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KRDO

Omicron offshoot XBB.1.5 could drive new Covid-19 surge in US

By Brenda Goodman, CNN For weeks, scientists have been watching a slew of Omicron descendants duke it out for dominance of Covid-19 transmission in the United States, with the BQs — BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 — seeming to edge out all the others to claim a slight lead. The result has been a gradual rise in cases and hospitalizations that never seemed to reach the peaks of this summer’s BA.5 wave and was certainly nothing like the tsunami of illness caused …

1 year ago·Colorado Springs, United States

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KIFI

Omicron offshoot XBB.1.5 could drive new COVID-19 surge in US

By Brenda Goodman, CNN For weeks, scientists have been watching a slew of Omicron descendants duke it out for dominance of COVID-19 transmission in the United States, with the BQs — BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 — seeming to edge out all the others to claim a slight lead. The result has been a gradual rise in cases and hospitalizations that never seemed to reach the peaks of this summer’s BA.5 wave and was certainly nothing like the tsunami of illness caused …

1 year ago·Idaho Falls, United States

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