IHME released its latest COVID-19 model projections today on July 19. Key takeaways: The spread of the BA.5 Omicron subvariant, combined with a decrease in social distancing, is fueling a surge in many parts of the world, including Latin America, North America, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and […]
Omicron BA.5 is now the dominant COVID-19 variant in the United States.1Experts said that while this subvariant may be more capable of evading natural and vaccine-induced immunity, BA.5 symptoms are similar to those caused by earlier versions of Omicron. It is very hard to distinguish one variant from the other based […]
Estimates released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today indicate that the share of cases tied to Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5 increased 79% in the past week. That means, even as the more transmissible BA.2.12.1 Omicron subvariant became officially dominant in the U.S. last week, it’s already being pushed out by newcomers BA.4 and BA.5. The […]
