The new "XEC" COVID-19 variant spreading rapidly in Europe has arrived in the US. What are the symptoms, will it cause a fall ...

A new COVID variant is raising questions and capturing the attention of researchers heading into the fall and winter season.

That sentiment was bolstered over the weekend by Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in ...

XEC, which was first identified in Germany in June, has now been spotted in Denmark, France, the Netherlands, the U.K., Canada and the U.S., according to lineage tracking graphs shared by data ...

Eric Topol, MD, executive vice president of Scripps Research, wrote on X that XEC “appears to be the most likely one to get legs next.” The variant spread rapidly in Germany, Denmark ...

Omicron variant KP.3.1.1, also known as deFLuQE, made up over half (52.7%) of COVID-19 cases between Sept. 1 and Sept. 14. However, XEC and a variant known as MV.1 seem poised to become the next ...

Health experts in the USA predict it will rapidly become the dominant strain. Dr Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in California told the Los Angeles Times XEC ...

A new Covid variant dubbed XEC is spreading in Europe. It's understood the XEC variant is a hybrid of the earlier omicron subvariants KS.1.1 and KP.3.3, currently dominant in Europe. Official ...

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XEC "is just getting started now around the world and here," said Dr. Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla. "And that's going to take many weeks ...