New JN. 1 Covid variant gains ground in US ahead of holiday season
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on December 24, 2023
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A new variant of Covid-19 is spreading rapidly across the US this holiday season, even as Americans’ interest in getting vaccinated has faded.
JN. 1, a sub-variant of Omicron that has an additional mutation in the spike protein, now accounts for more than 44 per cent of Covid cases in the US, doubling its spread in just two weeks, according to 
