There's a new version of COVID to worry about.
But others caution against worrying over it too much.Other experts say they don't feel like the emergence of the stealth Omicron variant is any cause for panic."BA.2 may, MD, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told, adding that"there is no cause for concern with BA.2 as everything you do to handle BA.1 is applicable."
According to the infectious disease expert, this includes making sure you're fully vaccinated, getting your booster shot when you're eligible, and wearing a mask in indoor spaces. This might be especially true given the fact that no research has indicated that the subvariant is any more likely to counteract the efficacy of our COVID vaccines., MD, professor and chief of infectious disease at the University at Buffalo in New York, told.
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