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COVID-19 cases rising in U.S. as new "variant of interest" emerges

Name: COVID-19 cases rising in U.S. as new "variant of interest" emerges
Uploaded: 2023-12-20T13:19:00-0500
Duration: 5 min 8 s
Description: The World Health Organization is calling the JN.1 COVID-19 strain, a subvariant of the Omicron strain, a "variant of interest." Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, joins CBS News with details on the virus's spread.

The World Health Organization is calling the JN.1 COVID-19 strain, a subvariant of the Omicron strain, a "variant of interest." Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, joins CBS News with details on the virus's spread.