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B.1.1.529, B.1.617.2, BA.1.1, BA.2, BA.2.3.20, BA.2.12.1 BA.2.75, BA.2.75.2, ... - ENOUGH ALREADY! [1]
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Date: 2022-10-30
It seems apparent to me that COVID is here to stay - just like the Flu and RSV. As the article says below: “Welcome to the Omicron Olympics.” Myself, I will continue to go out and about in public (fully vaccinated and boosted) as I have been doing this past year. YMMV
After many months of global dominance by the Omicron subvariant BA.5, an alphabet soup of newer Omicron strains is now rising in the U.S. and abroad as SARS-CoV-2 continues to rapidly evolve. Though BA.5 still accounts for more than 60 percent of new U.S. COVID cases, that percentage has been steadily dropping for weeks. But unlike past progressions of variant competition and dominance in the country and world, there isn’t one single variant that has been supplanting BA.5 but multiple independent strains in the Omicron lineage with similar mutations rising in different places around the world simultaneously. In the U.S., there are now five subvariants rising over the past few weeks. As one biosecurity researcher recently commented on Twitter, “Welcome to the Omicron Olympics.”
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