Researchers still don’t know how well BA.2.86 will evade immunity or whether it will cause more severe disease than its predecessors.
- Professor and Department Chair of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh
Face masks are still an effective way to help stop the spread of the BA.5 subvariant.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought immunology terms that are typically relegated to textbooks into our everyday vernacular. These stories helped us make sense of the ever-evolving science.
It’s too early to say whether the newly identified omicron variant is going to overtake delta. But particular mutations in the new strain have researchers deeply concerned.
COVID-19 is not the first – nor likely the last – to emerge from the two continents.
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