Medscape

Omicron XE Variant: What Do We Know So Far?

Recent data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) suggests that the XE variant of Omicron may be more transmissible than the BA.2 strain currently driving COVID-19 infections in the UK. A total ...
Time

What to Know About the XE Variant

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Inverse

Omicron XE: How worried should we be about this strange variant?

As the Covid-19 pandemic has progressed, we’ve repeatedly seen the arrival of new viral variants. Variants of concern, such as Delta and Omicron, are versions of SARS-CoV-2 (the original variant that ...
The Conversation

Should we worry about the XE variant? Maybe not yet, but ‘hybrids’ will become more frequent as COVID evolves

A new hybrid COVID-19 variant dubbed XE has sparked fresh concerns recently. XE is a combination of the highly transmissible BA.1 and BA.2 Omicron variants and was first detected in the UK in ...
The Conversation

Omicron XE is spreading in the UK – a virologist explains what we know about this hybrid variant

As the COVID pandemic has progressed, we’ve repeatedly seen the arrival of new viral variants. Variants of concern, such as delta and omicron, are versions of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes ...