Between measles and bird flu, there is no shortage of outbreaks to monitor. But experts suggest adding another to your radar: the new strain of COVID, NB 1.8.1, which is surging in China and has been detected by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s airport screening program in California, Washington, Virginia, and the New York City area.
Its appearance in the U.S. came just before Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s announcement on Tuesday that the CDC will no longer recommend COVID vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women.
