Had pink eye recently? There's a chance it could have been from new COVID-19 strain

For some pollen allergy sufferers, eye irritation at this time of year is nothing new — but with the newest strain of COVID-19 circulating, doctors are suggesting that if you have pink eye and a fever, you should test for COVID.

XBB.1.16, also known as Arcturus, is the newest subvariant of the omicron variant of COVID-19 spreading throughout much of the world. Like many COVID variants and subvariants that came before it, Arcturus is believed to be the most infectious strain of COVID yet.

"It does seem to be more transmissible than the last variant XBB.1.5," Dr. Timothy Friel, chairman of Lehigh Valley Health Network's Department of Medicine, said. "That's very telling because we thought XBB.1.5 was perhaps one of the most transmissible viruses that we've ever encountered."

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