CDC now tracking BN.1, the latest new COVID variant on the rise

Key Facts

• November 14, 2022 / 3:28 PM / CBS News The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now tracking the rise of another COVID-19 variant known as BN.1, according to figures published by the agency this month, marking the latest new Omicron descendant now spreading around the country this fall.
• Some 4.3% of new COVID-19 cases nationwide are now linked to the BN.1 variant, according to "Nowcast" estimates released on Friday by the CDC.
• A CDC official said Saturday at a webinar hosted by the Infectious Disease Society of America that BN.1 is estimated to be doubling in proportion roughly every two weeks across the country, though they cautioned that early estimates remain muddy.
• The National Institutes of Health's COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines panel warned last week that new variants could evade some COVID-19 treatments like Eli Lilly's monoclonal antibody, bebtelovimab, urging clinicians to stop using the drug in regions where these strains were dominant.

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