XEC is also an offshoot of omicron, the widely spread variant that formed in 2021. According to experts, it has some of omicron’s features, too — like less severe symptoms and easy transmissibility.

As COVID-19 activity remains high in the United States, a new variant called XEC has emerged and is spreading ... you can get what we call a recombination, where pieces of the genetic material ...

Covid XEC, a new variant of Coronavirus discovered in Germany in June, is spreading rapidly across Europe. This hybrid of omicron subvariants KS.1.1 and KP.3.3 may become the dominant strain by ...

where pieces of the genetic material from one recombine with the other, and that can create a new strain," says Ko. The XEC variant is a sublineage of omicron, just like the previous variants that ...

COVID-19 variant trackers are now closely watching the rise of a new virus variant called XEC, which has been spotted around the world and in half of states across the United States. Health ...

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XEC is the new COVID-19 variant getting attention in Europe. It already been detected in the U.S. Doctors expect that it will continue to spread—here’s what to do. “The XEC variant appears ...

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As flu season nears, so do new COVID-19 variants. A newly discovered COVID strain known as XEC continues to spread rapidly across multiple countries, including the U.S. Scripps Research’s ...

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