COVID-19 subvariant XE: What to know
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What happens if you get infected with omicron and BA.2 variants at the same time?
The XE strain was first detected in the United Kingdom on January 19, with now over 1,000 cases spreading by community transmission, with the majority in the east of England, London, and South East London, per the report.
A "recombinant" strain is a type of variant that occurs when an individual becomes infected with two or more variants at the same time, and are assigned the letter "X" prefix to classify them as recombinant, said Dr. Stacia Wyman, senior genomics scientist at the Innovative Genomics Institute at UC Berkeley.
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