A new COVID variant called BQ.1 is rising fast and now makes up 1 in 10 cases nationwide, CDC data shows.
"The bad news is that there's a new variant that's emerging and that has qualities or characteristics that could evade some of the interventions we have. But, the somewhat encouraging news is that it's a BA.5 sublineage, so there are almost certainly going to be some cross protection that you can boost up," he said.have so far gotten an updated COVID booster, which includes a component aimed at the BQ.1's parent BA.5.
"That's the thing that's so frustrating for me and for my colleagues who are involved in this, is that we have the capability of mitigating against this. And the uptake of the new bivalent vaccine is not nearly as high as we would like it to be," Fauci added.
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