Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are warning that flu and COVID, combined with holiday gatherings, could lead to a spike in illnesses this winter.
A new variant of coronavirus may be more contagious but less severe.
The number of COVID-19 cases is rising as a record number of people are traveling this holiday season.
A new, fast-spreading variant named JN.1 now makes up 44% of all cases nationwide, more than doubling (21.3% vs. 44.2%) its share from the week before, according to the CDC COVID Data Tracker: Variant Proportions.
“The World Health Organization has called this new JN.1 variant a variant of interest. What
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