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.

  • corsicanguppy
    331·
    1 year ago

    I did all the right things […]

    I still caught CV19 twice.

    One can do all the right things and still win the bad lottery. It’s about reducing risk on the whole so all our chances are reduced.