The Highly Infectious FLiRT Variants Behind the Summer Covid Wave

This story originally appeared on WIRED Japan and has been translated from Japanese.

The northern hemisphere is entering yet another Covid wave—while much of the world acts as if the pandemic were over, cases are surging again. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recorded an uptick in positive Covid tests, emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths in recent weeks, while cases and hospital admissions in the UK are creeping up too.

But it’s in Japan where the surge is particularly visible. The country’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases has reported that the average number of

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