Officials monitoring new COVID-19 variant
U.S. health officials are monitoring a new COVID variant, XEC, that has been identified in half the states in the country.
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Antiviral-resistant variants of SARS-CoV-2 can emerge in immunocompromised people
Individuals with compromised immunity and persistent COVID-19 infections can harbor drug-resistant variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which have the potential to spread to the general population, ...
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Health experts watch new COVID variant spreading through the U.S.
It's called XEC. The variant has been spotted around the world and in half of the United States. So far officials are not ...
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Just as COVID Levels Start to Dip, a New Variant Emerges
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KP.3 was the 'predominant' SARS-CoV-2 variant in the US. It was also spreading in Europe. It's now joined with another ...
Does the COVID vaccine protect against the new XEC variant?
A new COVID variant has emerged, with some scientists saying it could soon be the dominant strain of the virus. While global ...