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How Concerned Should You Be About Covid-19 ‘Scrabble' Variants?

Por: NBC 6 South Florida World October 26, 2022

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monkeybusinessimages Getty Images Though BA.5 still accounts for most U.S. Covid-19 cases, percentages are rising for the other omicron variants circulating throughout the country, per the . The ones that are particularly concerning are BQ.1 and another related one called BQ.1.1. Those are two that are expanding fairly rapidly in the United States, according to Roy Gulick, chief of the division of infectious disease at Weill Cornell Medicine and... + full article



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