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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 β€” or one in six β€” of new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. in the past two weeks.

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[-] BassaForte@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Who the fuck is in charge of naming these?

[-] dom@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

This last one was named after a famous battle Droid

(But really the new strains seen are given greco alpha numeric names. There are a bunch of strains that get named that we don't hear about because they Peter out.)

[-] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

It takes more than fast servomotors and bad programming to kill a Jedi.

[-] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Look up pangolin COVID naming.

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