A new COVID-19 variant has emerged, serving as a reminder that the coronavirus continues to mutate and spread around the world, disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations.

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 — or one in six — of new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. in the past two weeks.

    • dom
      17·
      1 year ago

      This last one was named after a famous battle Droid

      (But really the new strains seen are given greco alpha numeric names. There are a bunch of strains that get named that we don’t hear about because they Peter out.)

      • No_Eponym
        1·
        1 year ago

        It takes more than fast servomotors and bad programming to kill a Jedi.