Scientists and health experts have recently expressed concern over the new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, which is quickly spreading across the United States. Read this story by CEBacligINQ to know more. INQFocus
will detail what scientists and health experts know so far about the new XBB.1.5 variant, which is believed to be responsible for increasing infections and hospitalizations across the US.The XBB.1.5, according to Canadian evolutionary and genome biologist T. Ryan Gregory, is the fifth descendant of the Omicron XBB.1 variant, which stemmed from the XBB variant—a recombinant variant between two BA.2 lineages .
“We do know that XBB.1.5 has a concerning combination of both very high immune escape and high ACE2 binding ,” Gregory said in a Twitter post on January 3.
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