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New COVID Variants Are Escaping the Immune System. Here’s What That Means.

UH-OH

We're not out of the woods yet.

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BA.5, BQ.1.1, and XBB? It’s no wonder people are struggling to keep all the circulating variants of COVID-19 straight right now. Whether you want to call them “alphabet soup,” “Scrabble,”

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