Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Another big COVID-19 wave, fueled by more-transmissible BA.2.12.1 and BA.2 subvariants of the Omicron strain, is definitely now under way in the United States. CDC data indicates that at least 86 percent of Americans now live in communities where there is a high risk of COVID transmission, up from 72 percent the previous week and 57 percent the week before that.
To be clear, while COVID hospitalizations are again rising in parts of the country — to the extent that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is escalating its warnings to the public and expanding both eligibility and the strength of its recommendations for booster shots — there is not yet any indication that this new wave, by any metric, will reach anywhere near the overwhelming proportions of the Omicron-fueled fourth wave over the winter, or that the Omicron subvariants infecting...
But nothing good has ever come from another big wave of COVID infections. And this wave is rising at a time when countless Americans have concluded the pandemic is over. The new wave is also rising as many politicians and public officials at every level of government have largely abandoned interventions aimed at curbing the spread of COVID. Dr. Topol has aptly described this ongoing failure, which includes Congress refusing to adequately fund the U.S.
The U.S. wave is also presenting at least one subvariant, BA.2.12.1, that seems to be able to reinfect people who were previously infected with the original Omicron strains just months ago. As of the week ending May 14, the CDC estimated that 47.5 percent of new U.S. COVID infections were from the BA.2.12.1 variant, which means the next round of data will likely indicate the subvariant has become the dominant COVID strain in the country, beating out BA.
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“While it may not be as big and bad as the last one” is INCREDIBLY misleading. Just because we aren’t counting or reporting cases doesn’t mean they don’t exist. NY hospitalizations recently surpassed Delta’s peak, but there’s NO media coverage.
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