Woman wearing face masksto protect against Covid-19 on 7th April 2024 in London, United Kingdom. New strains of Covid-19 are spreading globally, raising concerns among health professionals about a possible summer spike in cases. The FLiRT variants have been on the rise in the ...
Why are these COVID-19 variants called FLiRT? The nickname FLiRT comes from two distinctive mutations seen in several descendants of the JN.1 variant that have sprung up around the world after its sweep over the winter. Some of the largest strains with FLiRT mutations in the U.S. right no...
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According to the CDC, the KP.2 variant is now the dominant COVID strain in the U.S., accounting for 25 percent of all current infections. The KP.1.1 variant makes up for 7.5 percent of all new COVID infections. Concerning Features Canva Megan L. Ranney, MD, the dean of the Yale S...
The variants are appearing inwastewater sampling, the CDC said, and case monitoring suggests that between April 14 and April 27, one FLiRT variant called KP.2 made up about a quarter of new COVID-19 cases. That puts KP.2 ahead of the prior dominant strain, the JN.1 variant, which now...
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For the last few months, JN.1 has been the dominant COVID-19 variant in the United States, making up the majority of cases. A new variant, however, has taken over and may lead to an increase in cases this summer. KP.2, which is an offshoot of the omicron vari...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday announced that it has advised manufacturers to update COVID-19 vaccines to target the JN.1 variant, the main driver of COVID cases earlier this year. Offshoots of JN.1, known asFLiRT variants, have since taken over as the dominant strains...
The most recent uptick in cases has been linked to the arrival of a group of new Covid variants in the UK. Known collectively as FLiRT, they are descended from the dominant JN.1 variant, which is itself a sub-variant of the Omicron strain of Covid. ...