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Aug 17, 2023 · Since then, several sub-variants of Omicron have surfaced, including BA.2, BA.3, BA.4, and BA.5. By the summer of 2022, the BA.5 variant was the most dominant strain in the US.
Aug 16, 2022 · BA.5 is one of the latest subvariants of the original Omicron lineage. There is a unique cluster of mutations on the spike protein, which has led the BA.5 subvariant to potentially be the most contagious strain of SARS-CoV-2 so far. But it does not appear to lead to more severe outcomes than other COVID-19 variants and subvariants.
Jul 13, 2022 · He said that symptoms such as runny nose, cough, headaches, and muscle aches remain the most common across different variants. People infected with BA.5 may experience these typical COVID-19 symptoms, sore throat, and fatigue, but they are less likely to report fevers or loss of taste and smell, said Andy Pekosz, PhD, a virologist and professor ...
- Carla Delgado
Sep 1, 2023 · The variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 first surfaced in the United States toward the end of 2021 and spread like wildfire, spawning new sub-strains—some more transmissible than others. Now, multiple Omicron subvariants are driving most of the COVID-19 cases in the United States. The newest Omicron strain arrived in the ...
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Jul 13, 2022 · A new omicron subvariant—called BA.5—is now the dominant SARS-CoV-2 strain in the United States, and early reports suggest it is spreading quickly and widely. Hotspots have emerged in the ...
- Hannah Smothers
Sep 29, 2022 · The symptoms that arise from a case of COVID-19 caused by the now-dominant omicron strain — known as BA.5 — don’t seem to differ from those caused by its parent variant or any of the other omicron offshoots, experts say. According to the American Medical Association (AMA), the most common symptoms of BA.5 are: Fever. Runny nose.
BA.5 is one of these subvariants in the Omicron virus family, and it is now causing surges in COVID-19 infections in numerous countries. It seems to be the most transmissible variant of the coronavirus yet. The fact that BA.5 has quickly become the dominant strain suggests that it is more transmissible than the prior strains, but exactly how ...
