{"id":1418423,"date":"2022-04-04T15:59:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T19:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1418423"},"modified":"2022-04-04T15:59:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T19:59:39","slug":"new-ba-2-covid-19-subvariant-symptoms-not-more-severe-than-ba-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-ba-2-covid-19-subvariant-symptoms-not-more-severe-than-ba-1\/","title":{"rendered":"New BA.2 COVID-19 Subvariant: Symptoms \u2018Not More Severe\u2019 Than BA.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-ba-2-covid-19-subvariant-symptoms-not-more-severe-than-ba-1%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1418423&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/12\/2022-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A new subvariant of SARS-CoV-2, this one dubbed BA.2, has taken over from all the other strains in the U.S.,\u00a0<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to\" data-rapid_p=\"8\" data-v9y=\"1\">according<\/a> to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/what-we-know-about-omicrons-ba-2-variant-so-far1\/\">article<\/a> in the Scientific American, BA.2, currently \u201caccounts for nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#variant-proportions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">55 percent<\/a> of all new SARS-CoV-2 infections in the U.S., according to latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The good news, according to the outlet, is that the \u201cdisease symptoms caused by BA.2 are not more severe than those caused by BA.1 in vaccinated people or people who were previously infected with SARS-CoV-2.\u201d This data came from\u00a0Ram Sasisekharan, a MIT biological engineer who spoke with the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>The more contagious subvariant is raging across the U.S., but Dr. Anthony Fauci, an immunologist and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who served on former President Trump\u2019s White House Coronavirus Task Force and is now President Biden\u2019s chief medical adviser on COVID-19, doesn\u2019t expect a huge surge in cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bottom line is we\u2019ll likely see an uptick in cases, as we\u2019ve seen in the European countries, particularly the U.K.,\u201d Fauci said last week on ABC. \u201cHopefully we won\u2019t see a surge \u2014 I don\u2019t think we will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several studies have found that BA.2 is even more transmissible than an earlier variant, BA.1, but still most scientists are not concerned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn early 2022, BA.2 was growing more common in a number of countries,\u201d The New York Times recently <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/stealth-omicron-stealthy-no-more-151845760.html\">reported<\/a>. \u201cBy February, it had become dominant worldwide, driving down the once-dominant BA.1. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that BA.2 jumped to 11% in early March from 1% in early February. It could soon become dominant in this country as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut that does not mean that Americans are riding a new BA.2 wave that is infecting a lot of new people. As BA.2 became more common in the United States, the total number of new cases fell by about 95%. Worldwide, the number of daily new cases had fallen to half of what they were at their peak in late January,\u201d The Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>Others have echoed that sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCases of this particular omicron subvariant, one of a few, keep popping up and have roughly doubled the past few weeks in the U.S., according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data estimates,\u201d the Miami Herald <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/coronavirus\/article259243535.html\">reported<\/a> last Wednesday. \u201cIt now makes up 11.6% of overall virus cases as of March 5 since it began doubling as of Feb. 5.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll in all, I think we\u2019re really gonna be OK and I don\u2019t think BA.2 is gonna be problematic like omicron,\u201d said Dr. Thomas Russo, an infectious disease doctor and professor and chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Buffalo, according to the Herald.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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