The Latest Covid Variant Is 1.5 Times More Contagious Than Omicron and Already Circulating in Almost Half of U.S. States

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There are already 127 confirmed cases across almost half of the U.S. of a new Covid subvariant that’s even more contagious than omicron.

"Currently there is no evidence that the BA.2 lineage is more severe than the BA.1 lineage," CDC spokesperson Kristen Nordlund said.

BA.1 and BA.2 have many differences in their mutations in the most important areas. In fact, the difference between BA.1 and BA.2 is greater than the difference between the original"wild strain" and the Alpha variant, which was the first major mutation to take root across the world. The U.K. Health Security Agency on Friday said BA.2 has a"substantial" growth advantage over the original omicron. The sister variant spread faster than the original omicron in all regions of England where there were enough cases to conduct an analysis, according to the agency.

 

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I strongly believe that they just keep developing new “variants” because either not enough people are dying or not enough people are vaccinated or both

Wow 😮, and here we go again 🤬.

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