More than a third of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. are now estimated to be from a new, fast-growing member of a group of ...
Fact checked by Nick Blackmer A group of new COVID-19 variants dubbed “FLiRT” have been on the rise in the United States.The ...
Experts are closely watching KP.2, now the leading variant. By Dani Blum For most of this year, the JN.1 variant of the ...
The virus behind COVID has mutated again, this time producing variants nicknamed FLiRT, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...
A new series of COVID variants, nicknamed the "FLiRT" variants, are being tracked by U.S. health officials, according to the ...
CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, are part of a group sometimes called “FLiRT” variants and serve as a reminder that the ...
FLiRT variants KP.1.1 and KP.2 are omicron variants that may be better at evading the immune system due to spike protein mutations.
Within the FLiRT family, one variant in particular has risen to prominence: KP.2, which accounted for about 25% of new ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 ... Prevention (CDC) said in its latest variant ...
As has often been the case throughout the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC is implementing this policy shift during a lull ...
You are up to date when you get 1 updated 2023–2024 COVID-19 vaccine. Children Who Are Not Vaccinated: Children aged 6 months–4 years should get two or three doses of updated COVID-19 vaccine ...
The updated vaccine targets the XBB.1.5 Omicron strain and is expected to be effective ... As of May 3, 22.5% of adults had ...