Omicron BA.2 is driving the majority of COVID infections in the United States. But a new subvariant — dubbed XE — has been detected in the United Kingdom and needs to be monitored, experts say.
The Biden Administration has announced a new strategy to prevent and treat so-called long COVID. A task force will coordinate research efforts to get a clear picture of how widespread long COVID is. Meantime, more than 600 cases of the new COVID variant XE had been detected in the United Kingdom.As of late March, more than 600 cases of the new COVID variant XE had been detected in the United Kingdom. NYU School of Global Public Health's Dr.
"I'm not seeing any data that suggests that it's more severe, but there haven't been enough cases probably for us to really know how it's going to play out," Ompad said. "It's unclear right now whether it's going to be important in terms of widespread transmission. So it's just something we're going to have to keep an eye on."
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