Masks are no longer required on the San Francisco Bay Area's BART system as the mandate requiring them expired on Monday.
Recent data from the CDC shows that, in region 9, which includes California, the BA.5 omicron sublineage made up 66% of confirmed cases sequenced July 3 to 9. BA.
5 is the most easily transmissible COVID variant to date, and preliminary research suggests it may avoid antibodies from vaccination and prior omicron infection. Infection from the original omicron variants generally causes less severe disease than infection with prior variants such as delta, the CDC said. Amid the rise in BA.5 cases, data shows hospitalizations are low compared with earlier surges in the pandemic.
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