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.

  • girlfreddyOP
    31·
    1 year ago

    I am one of the lucky few that has never had it.

    • malaph@infosec.pub
      3·
      1 year ago

      I never had a noticeable case of it either. I think I probably had an asymptomatic case