JULY 23, 2024 by Adrian Esterman, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainHeadlines are again warning of a new COVID variant in Australia. This time it’s LB.1, or as some experts have dubbed it, “D-FLiRT.” Emerging evidence suggests LB.1 could be more transmissible than earlier omicron subvariants, though there’s nothing to suggest it will cause more...
THEARA COLEMAN 10:53 AM Scott Olson / Staff/Getty Images A new COVID-19 Omicron subvariant is causing concern among scientists monitoring the virus’s spread and evolution, CNN reports. On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID-19 variant dashboard revealed startling data concerning a variant with features that could encourage a surge of COVID cases...
by University of Rochester Medical Center Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain First, there was alpha, then delta, then omicron. And now there’s the so-called “son of omicron,” a subvariant that was flagged by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday as a new variant to track. Officially called omicron BA.2, it shares most of its mutations...
