The U.S. is experiencing a surge in COVID cases this summer. Here's the latest variant that is causing illness across the country
The U.S. is experiencing a surge in COVID cases this summer. Here's the latest variant that is causing illness across the country.However, the percentage of all COVID deaths across the U.S. remains at 0.8%.
Offshoots of the FLiRT variant, including KP.3, KP.2 and KP.1.1 or any others starting with KP or JN, are mostly responsible for the increase in cases this summer.“Some people have a very classic sore throat, runny nose, cough and low-grade fever,” Dr. Paul Sax, the clinical director of the division of infectious diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School,. “In others, it’s mostly nausea and diarrhea with very minimal respiratory symptoms.
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