The variant is called EG.5 and is a descendant of Omicron.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that EG.5 accounted for roughly 17.3 per cent — or one in six — of new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. in the past two weeks.

    • @Reliant1087
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      91 year ago

      You know I really wish I hadn’t caught COVID at some point and lost the ability to sleep properly at some point.

        • starlinguk
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          31 year ago

          Welcome to long covid, where your body has adrenaline attacks at random points in the middle of the night.

        • @Reliant1087
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          11 year ago

          Long COVID. It’s one of the neurological problems left over.

    • @[email protected]
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      1.4 of 38-odd million is absolutely not rare, it’s nearly 1 in 50. The US figures are even worse. For something to be considered medically rare, it needs to be at most 1 in 10,000.

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      Long term symptoms aren’t rare. It’s at least one in ten people. And a lot of people are in denial and refuse to accept they’re scewed.