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.

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 ...

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

Heading into fall and winter virus season, and with a new COVID variant raising questions, Americans will soon be able to get ...

XEC is also an offshoot of omicron, the widely spread variant that formed in 2021. According to experts, it has some of ...

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, director of Scripps Translational Research Institute, told USA TODAY the politicization of COVID-19 vaccines promoted by Trump and Republicans was part of the reason millions of ...

the XEC variant appears to be the most likely one to get legs next,” Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla, said in a post on X on Sunday. Researchers ...

"At this juncture, the XEC variant appears to be the most likely one to get legs next," Scripps Research Translational Institute Director Eric Topol wrote on X. First appearing late June in Berlin ...

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 ...

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 ...