JN.1 Variant Accounts For 39%-50% Of US COVID-19 Cases, CDC Says

Reuters (12/22, Roy) reported the CDC “said on Friday that COVID subvariant JN.1 accounts for 39% to 50% of cases in the United States as of Dec. 23, according to the agency’s projections.” According to the CDC, “the variant continues to cause an increasing share of infections and is now the most widely circulating variant in the country.”