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Two COVID Variants Just Combined Into a ‘Frankenstein’ Virus
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First identified in the U.K., the ultra-infectious “XE” subvariant could already be spreading undetected in America.
David Axe
Published
Apr. 7 2022
4:49AM EDT
Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast
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