It's unlikely that a dangerous new Covid-19 variant is spreading in China, said Dr. Chris Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
Omicron BQ, XBB subvariants are a serious threat to boosters and knock out antibody treatments, study finds
China's National Health Commission said Sunday it would stop releasing daily information on Covid infections and deaths. However, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention has maintained daily reports — which, along with hospital discharges, only show thousands of new Covid infections a day and a handful of deaths. Covid testing is no longer mandatory in China.
Releases on China's disease control center website show its director Shen Hongbing held online meetings this month with his U.S. counterpart and the head of the U.K. Health Security Agency.As for the theory that viruses adapt to keep their hosts alive, Murray warned that it "applies over quite a long timespan, not months or years."
Genomic research shows it's still possible for a mutation to emerge that causes more severe disease, Murray said. "I think it would be unwise for us just to assume that all the variants are going to be like omicron."
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