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"At this juncture, the XEC variant appears to be the most likely one to get legs next," Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla, said in a post on X on Sunday. Researchers predicted in August that this variant could take a few weeks to a couple of months to take off and spread more rapidly. "XEC is definitely taking charge," Dr Topol said.
XEC, a sublineage of the omicron variant, was first reported in Berlin, Germany, in June and is now...
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