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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 ...
Jan 8, 2024 · The covid virus is continually changing, and a recent version is rapidly climbing the charts. Even though it appeared only in September, the variant known as JN.1, a descendant of omicron, is ...
Dec 27, 2023 · EG.5 — also called Eris — is a descendant of the Omicron variant XBB.1.9.2 and has one notable mutation that helps it to evade antibodies developed by the immune system in response to earlier ...
Jan 25, 2024 · A new, fast-spreading variant of COVID-19 is sweeping across the nation, ... called JN.1, is a subvariant of Omicron that was first detected by the World Health Organization in late August. At the ...
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 ...
Feb 6, 2023 · New variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, will continue to occur. CDC coordinates collaborative partnerships which continue to fuel the largest viral genomic sequencing effort to date. The Omicron variant, which emerged in November 2021, has many lineages. New lineages continue to emerge and spread in the United States and ...
