The omicron coronavirus subvariant BA.5 is hurtling towards full domination within the US, now accounting for an estimated 78 % of the nation’s circumstances—that are additionally on the rise.
The breakneck takeover is gorgeous, with BA.5 displaying a big progress benefit over all different lineages and sublineages. Within the US, that appears to incorporate BA.4, which shares the identical spike protein mutations however has differing mutations elsewhere in its genome.
In the beginning of June, BA.5 accounted for lower than 10 % of circumstances, with BA.Four lagging barely, accounting for an estimated 6.Four %. Since then, BA.5 has blasted forward to 78 %, whereas BA.Four peaked at 14.Four % early in July and has now declined to 12.eight %.
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