Once again, here comes the next contestant ... er, variant

Oh, joy. There's a new coronavirus variant in town ... or at least in New England:
( aka XBB )

Yay. Keep wearing those masks, folks. Unless you really like long COVID, that is.

(I also just noticed that the Boston Globe website has put its coronavirus coverage link back on the top header. They took it down in November; I never did figure out why.)