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The World Health Organization has added a new covid-19 strain, JN.1, to its list of “variants of interest,” its second highest level of monitoring. Itself an offshoot of the omicron subvariant BA.2.86 (nicknamed “Pirola” by the media),1 JN.1 is described by WHO as posing a “low” risk to global public health. The agency warned, however, that the winter season in the northern hemisphere could increase the burden of respiratory infections in many countries. Having made up just 3% of infections in early November, JN.1 is now responsible for over 27%, WHO said.2 JN.1 was first detected ...

JN.1 is now causing about 20 percent of new coronavirus infections in the US.

It’s already dominant in the Northeast, where it is estimated to cause about a third of new infections.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the coronavirus subvariant JN.1 is now causing about 20% of new Covid-19 infections in this country, and it’s the fastest-growing strain of the virus

The CDC estimates that prevalence of JN.1 more than doubled in the US between late November and mid-December.