Washington. The new omicron subvariant, XBB.1.5, is spreading in the United States and already accounts for approximately 40% of all cases of COVID-19 in the country.
According to the latest data from the government’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this subvariant leads the country’s number of covid-19 cases.
It has also gained ground especially in the Northwest. And in regions like New York it already reaches 75% of confirmed cases.
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The CDC warns that this dominant subvariant of covid-19 “may be more transmissible than other variants.”
Likewise, they said they still don’t know if it has “more serious” effects.
Hospitals are seeing an increase in revenue over the past month in the country.
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However, the Northwest area with high numbers of this subvariant did not see a disproportionate increase in hospitalizations compared to other regions.
XBB.1.5 is related to the omicron variant XBB, which has been found in at least 35 countries with clinical severity in Singapore and India, according to data compiled by the World Health Organization.
