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.

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

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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 new Covid-19 variant XEC, formed from KS.1.1 and KP.3.3 strains, is spreading quickly in the US and globally. More ...

At least 12 states in the U.S have reported a case of COVID with a new variant called XEC, which is on the rise in some ...

Covid-19: New XEC Strain 'Just Getting Started' Sparks Concern Amid Summer Wave Of US Cases A newly discovered more contagious COVID-19 strain spreading rapidly through Europe is sparking concerns ...