COVID Nightmare Variant XBB Spreading: When Will It Reach Mass.? – NBC Boston
“The XBB variant wave in Singapore will soon be their 2nd worst for the pandemic,” Dr. Eric Topol, founder of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, tweeted. “The reinfection rate prior to the wave was 5% and now up to 17%, which tells us about the immune escape properties of this variant (akin to BQ.1.1, very high level of immune evasion)”
