A message on Covid XBB variant is doing rounds on WhatsApp. It is fake and misleading. While an XBB variant does exist, claims in the message are misleading. Here's all you need to know about XBB ...

It is a descendant of the Omicron sub-variant XBB.1.9.2 and has one conspicuous mutation which helps it evade antibodies developed by the immune system in response to earlier infections and vaccines.

including with the then-current vaccine that was effective against Omicron XBB.1.5." Using reverse mutational scanning, the researchers identified that three mutations in the spike protein were ...

A new reverse mutational scanning approach can detect viral mutations responsible for immune evasion in new virus variants.

Topol. I know. I'm with you. The two most worrisome are BQ.1.1 and XBB. And we've learned a lot about these two. They're also picking up new mutations. So it's not just BQ.1.1 now. There's BQ.1.1. ...

1,16 version. So far, 52 countries have detected Covid-19 cases with Eris, which descends from the XBB.1.9.2 variant of Omicron but with a mutation in the additional Spike protein Q52H ...