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This new subvariant—nicknamed the kraken variant—was first detected in the fall in New York State. According to the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the kraken variant now makes up some 43% of COVID cases in the United States. Though COVID-19 transmission rates in King County remain low, a leader from the World Health ...
Apr 13, 2023 · Sonya Goins. April 13, 2023. While COVID-19 rates in the U.S. are relatively low and are declining, the World Health Organization ( WHO) is keeping an eye on a new COVID-19 variant. The omicron subvariant XBB.1.16, known as "Arcturus," has been listed by the WHO as a variant under monitoring since March 22. Experts say this variant has a higher ...
Jan 31, 2024 · The JN.1 strain surfaced in the U.S. in September. It is a close relative of BA.2.86 (informally referred to as “Pirola”), a lineage of the Omicron variant that the CDC has been tracking since August. (While the Omicron variant, which first took hold in the U.S. in 2021, has had multiple descendants, the original strain is no longer in ...
Dec 6, 2021 · Published on December 6, 2021. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, several coronavirus variants have emerged as the virus, SARS-CoV-2, continues to mutate and evolve. Many of these variants’ mutations have little or no impact on how the virus affects humans. But others, such as the genetic changes in the delta variant, can make the coronavirus ...
Jun 14, 2022 · Two new subvariants, BA.4 and BA.5, have been gaining ground in the United States. During the week ending June 11, the two subvariants accounted for 21.6 percent of cases in the country, up from ...
Aug 9, 2023 · A new coronavirus subvariant on the rise in some parts of the world is an example of how the virus will continue to evolve, some experts say. But while this latest coronavirus strain, EG.5 ...
BA.5 is one of these subvariants in the Omicron virus family, and it is now causing surges in COVID-19 infections in numerous countries. It seems to be the most transmissible variant of the coronavirus yet. The fact that BA.5 has quickly become the dominant strain suggests that it is more transmissible than the prior strains, but exactly how ...
