'Right now, there's really no public health concern,' one expert tells ABC News.
experts say that recombinant variants are very common and often crop up and disappear on their own.
Meanwhile, XE makes up less than 1% of total COVID-19 cases that have undergone genomic sequencing in the U.K., and there is no evidence to suggest that the variant can escape vaccines, cause more severe disease or is more deadly. "It's possible it may be more transmissible, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's more severe," he said."And given the sheer number of infections we've already seen with omicron, it's really unclear whether even being slightly more transmissible means we'll see any impact of this variant whatsoever."This illustration, created at the CDC, reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses.
Brownstein added,"This shows that some of these variants can be needles in a haystack, and here we have an example of one being identified very early on."saying it is monitoring XE, but there is no evidence yet that it is a variant of concern like alpha, delta and omicron.
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