As flu season nears, so do new COVID-19 variants. A newly discovered COVID strain known as XEC continues to spread rapidly ...
XEC is also an offshoot of omicron, the widely spread variant that formed in 2021. According to experts, it has some of omicron’s features, too — like less severe symptoms and easy transmissibility.
That sentiment was bolstered over the weekend by Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in ...