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19: New Highly Contagious KP.3 'FLiRT' Variant Now Accounts For Majority Of US Cases
A new highly contagious COVID-19 variant known as KP.3 now accounts for most infections in the United States. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that in a two-week period ending Saturday, June 8, the strain made up 25 percent of cases nationally, just ahead of the KP.2 variant (22.5 percent). Both KP.3 and KP.2 are offshoots of the highly contagious Omicron variant and are members of a newly identified group of variants known as “FLiRT.” COVID-19: New 'FLiRT' Variants Now Dominant In US Neither is expected to cause more serious symptom…