CNN —There’s a new coronavirus variant topping the leaderboard in the United States: EG.5.
And it represents another incremental tweak to the virus rather than a major evolutionary leap like the original Omicron strain.
This mutation has appeared in other coronavirus variants before.
EG.5 also now has its own offshoot, EG.5.1, that adds a second mutation to the spike.
Topol says the US can’t afford to delay its Covid-19 vaccine rollout.
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CNN —, it’s, David Ho, ” Ho, ”, Eric Topol, Anne Hahn, Dan Barouch, virologist, ” Topol, Mandy Cohen, Topol, Dr, Sanjay Gupta
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CNN, EG, US Centers for Disease Control, Columbia University, Scripps, Research, World Health Organization, Yale School of Public Health, Harvard University, US Food and Drug Administration, CDC, CNN Health, FDA
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United States, Northeast, FL, Ireland, France, Japan, China, Boston