Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. A group of new COVID-19 variants dubbed “FLiRT ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has detected a new set of COVID-19 variants nicknamed FLiRT in wastewater surveillance, according to data from the agency. From April 28 through May ...
The virus behind COVID-19 has mutated again, this time producing variants nicknamed FLiRT, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported. The variants are appearing in ...
A group of COVID-19 variants nicknamed “FLiRT” is spreading as the U.S. heads into summer. Some of the FLiRT variants are on the rise as JN.1 – previously the dominant strain – is declining.
A new set of COVID-19 variants—which have been given the nickname FLiRT—are the new dominant strain in the United States, currently accounting for 28.2% of all cases, the Centers for Disease ...
(NewsNation) — Two new COVID-19 variants are circulating, and they have the potential to evade immunity that could lead to a summer surge. The new strains are subvariants of the omicron variant ...
More than a third of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. are now estimated to be from a new, fast-growing member of a group of so-called "FLiRT" variants, nicknamed for their small but distinctive changes ...
A new set of COVID-19 variants—which have been given the nickname FLiRT—are the new dominant strain in the United States, currently accounting for 28.2% of all cases, the Centers for Disease ...
A new set of COVID-19 variants, nicknamed FLiRT, is rising in prevalence in the United States. The variant, labeled KP.2, made up about 25% of the COVID-19 cases in the U.S. in April, according ...
Two new COVID-19 subvariants, collectively nicknamed FLiRT, are increasingly edging out the winter’s dominant strain ahead of a possible summer uptick in coronavirus infections. The new FLiRT ...
NEW YORK - Covid-19 sub-variants, nicknamed “FLiRT”, have been the dominant forms of the virus circulating this year globally, according to the World Health Organization. The moniker FLiRT is ...