since january. the number of hospitalizations are up as well. how worried are you at this moment, dr. fauci, about the ba.5 variant, and what do we need to know about how to protect ourselves? well, it s something we absolutely need to take seriously. it has a transmission advantage over the prior variants that were dominant. the dominant variant was first ba 1, then ba.2, then 2.1. then you get to ba.5, which clearly has a transmission advantage which is one of the reasons why we re seeing throughout several regions of the country including in particularly the new york area, you re starting to see cases go up. it needs to be taken seriously. everybody wants to put this pandemic behind us and feel and hope it doesn t exist. it does. however, the good news is we
You may be at risk of catching the new subvariants BA.4 or BA.5 even if you had the original omicron, virologist Alex Sigal told DW's Science Unscripted.
You may be at risk of catching new COVID subvariants BA.4 or BA.5 even if you had the original omicron, as virologist Alex Sigal told DW's Science Unscripted.