COVID reinfections set to spike in U.S. as new variants evade immunity

Source: Yahoo! News

COVID reinfections set to spike in U.S. as new variants evade immunity

Andrew Romano·West Coast Correspondent
Mon, June 13, 2022, 6:00 PM

If you’re anything like the majority of Americans — an estimated 60-plus-percent of them, according to government data — you’ve already had COVID-19.

And if you’re like most of those Americans, you had it fairly recently — during the enormous Omicron wave that engulfed the U.S. over the winter holidays.

The question now is whether you’re ready to get infected again — this time by a new subvariant that not only sidesteps some of your existing immunity but may also be more resistant to key treatments.

Two mutants matching that description, BA.4 and BA.5, are now taking off in the U.S. — and experts say they will soon outcompete the earlier versions of Omicron (BA.2 and BA.2.12.1) that have already been causing hundreds of thousands of new (and mostly unreported) infections every day for weeks on end.

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