What You Need to Know About the Kraken Covid Variant - Selected Articles - 7:44 AM 1/12/2023

 

Selected Articles - Michael Novakhov's favorite articles on Inoreader - The News And Times

What You Need to Know About the Kraken Covid Variant

Since Omicron became the world’s dominant Covid variant, it’s taken on a lot of shapes. First there was BA.1, then BA.5, and eventually others, including BQ.1 and BQ.1.1. Now all eyes are on another scrambled string of letters and numbers—XBB.1.5, also known as the Kraken, which has swept the northeastern US in recent weeks.The World Health Organization...

posted 1m ago via wired.com

 

'Highly contagious' 'Kraken' Covid variant set to spread to UK

The deadly 'Kraken' Covid variant along with another known as the CH.1.1 variant are set to become the dominant strains in the UK, experts say. The Kraken variant is better at evading immune defences, experts fear, and is sweeping across America. The XBB.1.5 'Kraken' variant has been surging in America in recent months, the UK Health Security Agency...

posted 3m ago via coventrytelegraph.net

 

'Highly contagious' 'Kraken' Covid variant set to spread to UK

The deadly 'Kraken' Covid variant along with another known as the CH.1.1 variant are set to become the dominant strains in the UK, experts say. The Kraken variant is better at evading immune defences, experts fear, and is sweeping across America. The XBB.1.5 'Kraken' variant has been surging in America in recent months, the UK Health Security Agency...

posted 1h ago via coventrytelegraph.net

 

XBB.1.5 likely to be the next major COVID subvariant – DW – 01/05/2023

Yet another new coronavirus subvariant is here: XBB.1.5. The subvariant is spreading rapidly in the United States, responsible for 41% of positive COVID-19 cases at the end of December. "At the start of December, about 2% of cases in the US were caused by XBB.1.5. Now in early January it's probably over 50%. That is an astonishing rate of growth," Paul...

posted 1h ago via dw.com