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BA.5 COVID symptoms doctors are seeing the most right now

BA.5 COVID symptoms doctors are seeing the most right now

HuffPost, July 22, 2022

The current COVID-19 variants are more transmissible than ever, leading to a higher rate of infection throughout the country and increased risk associated with most activities. “The current variants, which are BA.4 and BA.5, constitute for about 82% of our current variants within our health system,” Dr. Janak Patel, director of the Division of Infectious Disease and Immunology at the University of Texas Medical Branch, told HuffPost.