Nearly 10,000 COVID deaths occurred globally in December, the World Health Organization said this week—this as highly mutated variant “Pirola” JN.1 offspring spawn and begin their upward ascents in the U.S. and elsewhere.
The global wave occurs after holiday gatherings, as expected, and comes as JN.1 dominates worldwide, the organization’s director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said at a Wednesday news conference in Geneva.
