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The fast-spreading BA.5 subvariant of Omicron and its close relative BA.4 now make up around 95% of COVID-19 cases in the U.S., according to estimates published Tuesday by the Centers for Disease ...

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday it is tracking a recently discovered COVID-19 strain, BA.2.86, after a case of the highly mutated variant was discovered in ...

The subvariant of Omicron is becoming more common in the United States but probably won’t cause another large spike. By Carl Zimmer As the Omicron coronavirus surge subsides, researchers are keeping ...

BA.5 is still classified as an omicron variant but has new mutations different from BA.1 and BA.2 The first cases appeared in the Northeast, then started spreading to the South, Midwest and West Can ...