The new and contagious XEC COVID-19 variant is spreading rapidly in several countries. Will it cause a surge in the U.S.?

Scientists have warned that a “more contagious” variant of the Covid virus, dubbed XEC, is starting to spread more rapidly ...

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to evolve, a new variant known as the Covid XEC variant is starting to spread rapidly ...

XEC’s prevalence is lower in the US and Canada and reached a high of 5.96% in European cases on 19 August. Slovenia had high ...

The XEC variant is a hybrid of the earlier omicron subvariants KS.1.1 and KP.3.3, which is currently dominant in Europe. But ...

Experts are keeping a close eye on the spread of a new Coronavirus variant that is spreading in the US, Europe, and has also ...

XEC is the product of a recombination (exchanged pieces of genetic material between two variants) between the KS.1.1 variant ...

Currently, KP.3.1.1 accounts for over half of all COVID cases in the U.S. The next closest subvariant circulating is KP.2.3, ...

Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have zeroed in on a short list of animals that possibly helped spread it to ...

COVID XEC variant has been confirmed in 27 countries in Europe, North America and Asia, according to data specialist Mike ...

A new COVID variant is spreading rapidly and could soon become the dominant variant around the globe. The variant, called XEC, was first detected in Germany in August and appears to have a growth ...

That means like other variations of COVID, the symptoms are similar: The new vaccines are monovalent, or target one variant.