The latest COVID-19 variant to sweep across the country, XBB.1.5, doesn't appear to cause more serious disease than its predecessors, experts say.
The latest COVID-19 variant to sweep across the country, XBB.1.5, doesn't appear to cause more serious disease than its predecessors, experts say.
Still, vaccines remain effective at preventing severe disease and death and the antiviral Paxlovid, given in the first few days after infection,"dramatically reduces progression to hospitalization," said Dr. Daniel Griffin, an infectious disease specialist at Northwell Health in New York.Get weekly coronavirus updates in your inbox:The primary concern with any new variant is whether vaccines and treatments will remain effective.
But"anytime you have a new creature that spreads like this, person to person so rapidly, it puts a big stress on our infrastructure – medical facilities and personnel who are chronically short-staffed. That's a problem for everybody," he said., showing that COVID-19 booster shots, designed to target two different variants, still provide protection against this new one – and better protection than a vaccine directed at just the original virus.
And the medical definition of"mild" may not match the average person's, Griffith said."People are still pretty miserable," he said, adding that several patients have complained that a recent infection was worse than a previous one or worse than they've felt from nearly anything else in their life. The new variant is spreading fast, Luban said, for one of three reasons or – more likely – a combination:This variant may be better at transmitting from person-to-person.
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