BREAKING: A judge has struck down New York City's 'toddler mask mandate'
Kids younger than 2 have not been subject to mask mandates since the pandemic started.
It's been called "stealth omicron" or "deltacron." A new subvariant of the COVID-19 virus is making headlines, so we talked to NBC News medical correspondent Dr. John Torres to learn more. He explained how the variant "plagiarizes" from the Omicron and Delta variants that previously caused surges, and why this may not cause a new surge here in the U.S.
While BA.2 does appear to be"inherently more transmissible" than the original omicron strain, the World Health Organization has said, experts say they don't expect it to trigger a major resurgence given high vaccination rates and so many people having been recently infected with the first omicron strain.
BA.2 is now the dominant COVID strain in both New York and America. Earlier this week, the feds authorized a second booster dose forThis article tagged under:
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