What Strain of COVID Is Going Around Right Now? A look at the COVID strains currently circulating, what symptoms they cause, and how well tests, vaccines, and treatments hold up against them
Variants and Genomic Surveillance | COVID-19 | CDC New variants of SARS-CoV-2 are expected to continue to emerge Some variants will emerge and disappear, while others will emerge and continue to spread and may replace previous variants
What to Know About COVID Variant XFG Stratus The latest COVID-19 variant known as XFG, nicknamed Stratus, continues to spread throughout the United States, driving a summer spike in cases
COVID-19 variants | WHO COVID-19 dashboard - datadot When these changes become significantly different to a previously detected virus, these new virus types are known as “variants ” To identify variants, scientists map the genetic material of viruses (known as sequencing) and then look for differences between them to see if they have changed
Early Detection and Surveillance of the SARS-CoV-2 Variant BA. 3. 2 . . . ¶ The initial variant detection and relative abundance in wastewater were inferred through deconvolution using Freyja, with BA 3 2-specific mutation co-occurrences further verified using CoOccurence adJusted Analysis and Calling
COVID-19 variants: Whats the concern? - Mayo Clinic If a mutation changes how a virus acts in a group of people, it's called a variant Scientists across the world track the changes in the virus variants that cause COVID-19