‘There’s a new coronavirus variant topping the leaderboard in the United States: EG.5.
Nationally, EG.5 is causing about 17% of new Covid-19 cases in the country, compared with 16% for the next most common lineage, XBB.1.16, according to the latest estimates from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.’
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/09/health/covid-variant-eg5/index.html
WHO classifies EG.5 as COVID-19 ‘variant of interest’
h/t A Deplorable Neanderthal