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Understand BA.5 & the COVID Vaccine for Kids

Understand BA.5 & the COVID Vaccine for Kids

Paging Emily Oster

Jul 11, 2022
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Understand BA.5 & the COVID Vaccine for Kids
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Let’s first talk about the BA.5 Omicron subvariant.

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Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash

BA.5 is now dominant in the U.S. It is generating a lot of infections because it is wildly contagious—more so than past Omicron subvariants. But luckily so far, BA.5 doesn’t seem to be intrinsically more virulent than past variants. So far, hospitalization a…

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