Commentary: New COVID variants like BA.5 are dominating us — we can do more to prevent this
by Eric J. Topol, Los Angeles Times
Jul 15, 2022
3 minutes
It takes a lot for a COVID-19 variant to become dominant throughout most of the world. It has happened only three previous times (alpha, delta, omicron) and now is occurring with the omicron family subvariant known as BA.5. How did this occur and what are the implications for the pandemic going forward?
In the last weeks BA.5 became the dominant COVID-19 variant in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the cause of
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