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“XEC is definitely taking charge,” Dr Topol said. XEC, a sublineage of the omicron variant, was first reported in Berlin, Germany, in June and is now spreading “quite rapidly” across ...

More information: Christine Happle et al, Humoral immunity after mRNA SARS-CoV-2 omicron JN.1 vaccination, The Lancet Infectious Diseases (2024). DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(24)00603-0 Journal ...

aDepartment of Rheumatology and Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover 30625, Germany bDepartment of Pediatric Pulmonology, Allergology, and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover 30625 ...

Some research suggests that some variants might be more likely to lead to long COVID symptoms than others. For example, infection with Omicron might be less likely to lead to long COVID than infection ...

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A new strain of COVID-19 is making the rounds this fall, and it’s called XEC. The strain is a subvariant of Omicron, and was found in Germany this June, with other cases reported in Denmark, U.S. and ...

At the time, KP.2, a member of the FLiRT variant family and a descendant of omicron, was behind a large share of increasing infections in the U.S. Though this particular strain is no longer among the ...

The new coronavirus variant Omicron is spreading across the globe at an unprecedented rate, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Cases of the heavily mutated variant have been confirmed ...

Pfizer and BioNTech have started clinical trials of a new Covid vaccine which targets the Omicron variant. The companies plan to test the protection gained from the new vaccine as a booster jab ...