The worrisome BA.5 Omicron subvariant is now the most dominant COVID strain in the country, according to the latest CDC estimate
A three-year-old getting her first dose of a COVID vaccine in Seattle last month. Photo: David Ryder/Getty Images The newest wave of COVID infections and reinfections, fueled by more transmissible subvariants of the Omicron strain including BA.4 and BA.5, continues to grow across the U.S. The extra-worrisome BA. 5 is now the most dominant variant in the country, accounting for an estimated 53.6 percent of new infections last week, according to the CDC.
The seven-day average test positivity rate for the U.S. through June 28, 2022. Illustration: Screencap/The New York Times New York City’s test positivity rate surpassed 10 percent last week for the first time since January 22. The city also took down its color-coded COVID risk alert system last week so it could be reevaluated, city officials said.
Illustration: Screencap/CDC The good news? While U.S. COVID hospitalizations have been trending up since mid-April, they are nowhere near the levels reached in the Omicron wave, and the rates of new reported COVID deaths and COVID patients in intensive-care units are thus far only slightly ticking up and remain near pandemic lows.
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