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The COVID-19 variant XEC, which has been spreading across Europe, now accounts for 17% of cases in the United States.
The XEC variant is an Omicron offshoot. Research shows that it’s a hybrid of the Omicron subvariants KS.1.1 and KP.3.3, the latter of which spawned from KP.3, which was spreading this summer. This new variant has several mutations on the spike protein, which the virus uses to latch onto and infect cells.
“It seems to be a bit more infectious than previous strains,…
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