Becker's Healthcare October 23, 2024
COVID-19 variant is expected to surpass KP.3.1.1 as the most dominant circulating variant, according to a preprint study from researchers at universities in Japan and the United Kingdom.
As of Oct. 12, the most recent CDC data available, KP.3.1.1 accounts for 57.2% of COVID-19 cases, followed by XEC (10.7%), KP.2.3 (7.8%), LB.1 (5.8%) and KP.3 (5.7%). Two weeks prior, XEC was fifth with 5.3% of cases.
In the U.S., researchers found the reproduction number of XEC is 1.13-fold higher than that of KP.3.1.1, which has been the most dominant variant since mid-August. In other countries where XEC has...
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