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“It does have increased transmission capability,” Fauci said. But all is not lost. The variant still responds to vaccines.
“However, when you look at the cases, they do not appear to be any more severe and they do not appear to evade immune responses either from vaccines or prior infections," Fauci added."Based on available data of transmission, severity, reinfection, diagnostics, therapeutics, and impacts of vaccines, the group reinforced that the BA.2 sublineage should continue to be considered a variant of concern and that it should remain classified as Omicron. The group emphasized that BA.
The organization added that BA.2 is currently the dominant variant circulating globally and is considered as a"sublineage" of the highly transmissible omicron variant. BA.2 carries a different genetic sequence than its predecessor BA.1 and was first referred to as the"stealth variant" because it wasn't as easy to detect.
BA.2 is considered about 50% to 60% more transmissible than omicron and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported more than 31,200 new Covid-19 cases Saturday, including 958 deaths. released by the CDC this week reveals the variant is spreading more quickly in the Northeast and West of the U.S.
The CDC further noted that the BA.2 variant is on its way to becoming the dominant strain, having roughly doubled each week for the past month."We often don't know until it's too late," Stephanie Silvera, an infectious disease specialist at Montclair State University in Montclair, New
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