The CDC estimates that it’s causing 75 percent of new cases in the northeastern US.
As multiple respiratory viruses circulate in the United States, a subvariant of Omicron named XBB.1.5 appears to be poised to dominate other strains of the virus.
, find that XBB.1.5 has risen from about 4 percent to 41 percent of new COVID-19 infections over the month of December. “For a few months now, we haven’t seen a variant that’s taken off at that speed,” Pavitra Roychoudhury, director of COVIC-19 sequencing at the University of Washington School of Medicine’s virology lab,It is not yet clear where this version of Omicron came from, but it may have arisen in the United States.
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