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The variant is called EG.5 and is a descendant of Omicron.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that EG.5 accounted for roughly 17.3 per cent โ€” or one in six โ€” of new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. in the past two weeks.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Agreed. I guess Iโ€™m saying is that itโ€™s no more concerning that what is currently floating around. Itโ€™s what most epidemiologists expected to happen.