The BA.5 COVID subvariant is now the dominant strain of COVID-19 in Houston and the United States and is spreading rapidly.
– It’s official, the Center For Disease Control said the new Omicron subvariant, BA.5, is currently the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States, now making up nearly 54% of new cases nationally.“What we’ve seen is that the BA.5 has now become the dominant variant in the Houston area in the symptomatic patients that we are testing,” said Dr. Wesley Long with Houston Methodist Hospital.
Doctors say the new subvariant is the most contagious form of COVID-19 we’ve seen yet and even more alarming, is the fact that it’s infecting both people who’ve already had COVID-19 and those who’ve been both vaccinated and boosted.“We are in the midst of the worst surge of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic in terms of the number of infected people out in the community,” said Dr. Steven McDeavitt, at Baylor College Of Medicine.
To help battle the new BA.5 subvariant, testing is now underway for a multipronged umbrella vaccine aimed at stopping future mutations. This fall, the United States government is expected to introduce a completely new booster shot that will specifically target Omicron.
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