Understand BA.5 & the COVID Vaccine for Kids

Paging Emily Oster

Let’s first talk about the BA.5 Omicron subvariant.

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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…