▲ 336 ▼ A new COVID-19 variant has emerged. Here's what we know about EG.5 so far (www.ctvnews.ca) submitted 3 years ago by girlfreddy@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca 154 comments fedilink hide all child comments The variant is called EG.5 and is a descendant of Omicron. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that EG.5 accounted for roughly 17.3 per cent — or one in six — of new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. in the past two weeks.
[–] BassaForte@lemmy.world 13 points 3 years ago (3 children) Who the fuck is in charge of naming these? permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] dom@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 years ago (1 child) This last one was named after a famous battle Droid (But really the new strains seen are given greco alpha numeric names. There are a bunch of strains that get named that we don't hear about because they Peter out.) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 years ago It takes more than fast servomotors and bad programming to kill a Jedi. permalink fedilink source parent [–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 3 years ago Look up pangolin COVID naming. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dom@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 years ago (1 child) This last one was named after a famous battle Droid (But really the new strains seen are given greco alpha numeric names. There are a bunch of strains that get named that we don't hear about because they Peter out.) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 years ago It takes more than fast servomotors and bad programming to kill a Jedi. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 years ago It takes more than fast servomotors and bad programming to kill a Jedi. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 3 years ago Look up pangolin COVID naming. permalink fedilink source parent