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Technically, JN.1 is BA.2.86.1.1. But the naming system for COVID variants calls for the string of letters to truncate after three additional sets of numbers and periods. So BA.2.86.1.1 “rolled ...
JN.1 is a COVID-19 variant that descended from BA.2.86, explains infectious disease expert Amesh Adalja, M.D., a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. JN.1 is “another ...
The JN.1 variant was a descendant of the omicron subvariant BA.2.86. It was identified in September 2023 and spread throughout the U.S. JN.1 had one or two additional mutations on the spike ...
But so far, the illness caused by JN.1 — which, like all other variants that have gained dominance since early 2022, is a descendant of omicron — doesn't seem any more severe than earlier ...
JN.1.4—a “child," so to speak, of JN.1—was the No. 3 most commonly reported variant in the U.S. on Thursday, comprising 11.5% of sequences, Rajnarayanan told Fortune, citing data from GISAID ...
(Reuters) -The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday classified the JN.1 coronavirus strain as a "variant of interest" and said current evidence shows risk to public health was low from the ...
BA.2.86 has more than 30 mutations compared to the omicron XBB.1.5 variant, the dominant strain for most of 2023 and the variant targeted in the updated COVID-19 vaccine, TODAY.com previously ...
The new, highly mutated COVID variant JN.1—dubbed “Pirola” by volunteer variant trackers—has achieved global dominance. And like Omicron, it came flying out of left field. And like Omicron ...