The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that EG.5 accounted for roughly 17.3% — or one in six — of new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. in the past two weeks.
Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious disease specialist at University Health Network in Toronto, said he expects cases of EG.5 to pop up in Canada soon, if they aren’t already.in a phone interview Monday.
“We saw a BA.2, we saw a BA.4 and BA.5, we saw an XBB and now it’s EG.5, so the virus continues to mutate and we’re gonna see waxing and waning of the virus in the community,” he said. As the past few years have shown, COVID-19 has a disproportionate impact on certain groups, Bogoch said, adding that EG.5 will probably be no different.
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