BA.5's symptoms can vary widely from person to person based on age and other health risk factors, but most symptoms are similar to other omicron subvariants. Here is what you need to know
It is spreading fast and is highly transmissible.Also, it is currently the most dominant strain of the COVID-19 virus.
The sub-variant is the only strain of the virus that is currently classified as a “variant of concern” by the CDC.Here is what you need to know about the latest strain of omicron and the symptoms to look out for.BA.5′s symptoms, like other COVID-19 variants, can vary widely from person to person depending on their age and other health factors.Dr. Sandra Adams, a professor of biology and virologist at Montclair State University, told NJ Advance Media that BA.
“The symptoms are very much like the symptoms of the BA.2 and BA.4 variants,” Adams added. “The BA-5 variant is more transmissible because it appears to evade antibody protection from previous infections and vaccines. The mutations allow BA.5 to escape neutralizing antibodies elicited by previous Omicron variants. However, vaccines and previous infections still provide protection from serious disease.
It is still too soon to know if BA.5 causes dramatically different symptoms than the variants of COVID-19 that preceded it, but “loss of taste or smell” found in earlier forms of COVID-19 was relatively uncommon. However, there has been anecdotal evidence of people losing their sense of smell with the uptick in BA.5 cases,
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