Apri 18, 2022
Source: Dessert News
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New coronavirus variants will keep coming
Dr. Anthony Fauci, right, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021, in Washington.Alex Brandon, Associated Press The future of the COVID-19 pandemic remains unclear, but you should expect there to be more COVID-19 variants, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief pandemic scientist for the White House.
Driving the news: “It’s really tough to say what is going to happen,” Fauci told BuzzFeed News. “But there are going to be new variants.” It's Not Over: COVID-19 Cases Are On The Rise Again In U.S. It's Not Over: COVID-19 Cases Are On The Rise Again In U.S. Most cases are now being caused by a subvariant known as BA.2 that is thought to be 30% more contagious. Why this matters: Fauci explained that more COVID-19 variants will lead to upticks in cases, which could come throughout the year at any point. In fact, a rise in COVID-19 variants could lead to “seasonal COVID,” where the virus picks up strength every few months. What he said: “I think we will see ‘blips’ where there are more cases going forward as new variants emerge,” Fauci said. Worth noting: Fauci told BuzzFeed News that variants will rise up in places where “you have large pockets of unvaccinated people that give the virus room to evolve.”
The bigger picture: COVID-19 variants continue to pop up throughout the country. Some of them aren’t true variants, but subvariants of the COVID-19 variants. Many of the recent subvariants appear tied to the omicron variant, which led to widespread coronavirus cases in the winter of 2021-2022.
The World Health Organization said Monday it is monitoring two new omicron subvariants — BA.4 and BA.5.
At the same time, both the BA.2.12 and BA.2.12.1 variants — which are subvariants of the omicron’s first subvariant, BA.2 — created a recent surge in COVID-19 cases in New York, the New York State Department of Public Health said Wednesday.
And then there’s the omicron XE variant, which brings together the BA.2 variant and the original omicron variant.
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