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Thread by @TRyanGregory on Thread Reader App
Thread by @TRyanGregory on Thread Reader App

“Two new variants are competing for dominance: NB.1.8.1 and XFG. We recently nicknamed NB.1.8.1 ‘Nimbus’, and it's pretty clear that XFG deserves a nickname as well. Keeping with the meteorological theme, XFG = ‘Stratus’.

Here's some more info about Nimbus and Stratus. 🧵

Two new variants are competing for dominance: NB.1.8.1 and XFG. We recently nicknamed NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus", and it's pretty clear that XFG deserves a nickname as well. Keeping with the meteorological theme, XFG = "Stratus". Here's some more info about Nimbus and Stratus. 🧵
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Thread by @TRyanGregory on Thread Reader App
New COVID-19 Variant NB.1.8.1 Causes Surge In China, Spreading In U.S.
New COVID-19 Variant NB.1.8.1 Causes Surge In China, Spreading In U.S.
“Remember COVID-19? That thing that’s killed around 350 people a week in the U.S. over the past month and continues to leave more and more people with long Covid? Remember the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 that’s still spreading, mutating, “varianting” and “subvarianting” and causing COVID-19? Well, nota bene or N.B., there’s a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 in town. It is called the NB.1.8.1 variant, has been causing COVID-19 surges in China, Hong King and Taiwan and is now spreading in the U.S.”
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New COVID-19 Variant NB.1.8.1 Causes Surge In China, Spreading In U.S.
U.S. reports cases of new COVID variant NB.1.8.1 behind surge in China
U.S. reports cases of new COVID variant NB.1.8.1 behind surge in China

NB.1.8.1 is now here in the U.S.:

"Hong Kong authorities say that rates of COVID-19 in the city have climbed to the worst levels they have seen in at least a year, after a "significant increase" in reported emergency room visits and hospitalizations driven by COVID-19."

·cbsnews.com·
U.S. reports cases of new COVID variant NB.1.8.1 behind surge in China