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A new COVID-19 variant has emerged. Here's what we know about EG.5 so far (www.ctvnews.ca)

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The variant is called EG.5 and is a descendant of Omicron.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that EG.5 accounted for roughly 17.3 per cent — or one in six — of new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. in the past two weeks.

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[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 64 points 2 years ago

The number of people ignoring this is terrifying. Study after study keeps showing its a problem.

There's going to be a massive accumulated health crisis in 10-20 years where a quarter of the population has a wrecked vascular system. On par with diabetes, but in this case untreatable which is going to kill millions far earlier than they should.