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The good news for now is that vaccines still appear to protect against it - Umair Irfan

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We regret to inform you that we are now discussing subvariants

BA.2 is an iteration, not a revolution. It’s no surprise that the coronavirus is continuing to evolve: The more people the virus infects, the greater the chances that it will mutate. And with omicron infections already peaking in many countries, BA.2 might not trigger major new spikes. But some estimates show that it’s more than 1.5 times as transmissible as BA.1, and that could slow down the decline in cases...

Vaccines still appear to reduce the spread of BA.2 and cut the rates of severe disease...

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 We regret to inform you that we are now discussing subvariants

There’s yet another twist in the pandemic: The omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, now has a “subvariant” that seems to spread more quickly than any other version of the coronavirus to date. The good news for now is that vaccines still appear to protect against it.

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