NEW COVID VARIANT ON THE RISE: XBB is a variant of omicron and has been dubbed the “nightmare variant” in Singapore.
, with all of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island now included in the medium risk category.
While doctors interviewed by NBC10 Boston this week said they expect some level of a winter surge, they said there isn't any data yet to suggest that the new variants will cause more severe disease. "Only time will tell," Dr. Sabrina Assoumou of Boston Medical Center said."My big message is, unfortunately, we're seeing more variants, and the virus is actually figuring out better ways to evade our protection, but we're not hopeless and it's not a helpless situation. We have vaccines, they actually work, but the key thing is that you have to be up to date... So please get get up to date so that we are all prepared in the community before a potential winter surge.
"I think it's likely that we'll continue to see the proportion of cases that are being caused by the new variants increase because they do seem to be able to evade immunity," added Dr. Daniel Kuritzkes of Brigham and Women's Hospital."But for the general public. I think the issue is going to be that, first of all, receiving a booster vaccine, as Dr.
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