To date, the most common subvariant in the Bay Area is BA.5, but BA 2.75 has arrived and it may be more contagious.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Health experts warn of a new subvariant of Omicron that is driving a surge in India and has been detected in the Bay Area. It is dubbed BA 2.75 and was found in wastewater samples in June. This, as hospitalizations are seeing an uptick already.
"The silver lining is it probably is going to perform the same way, where if you are vaccinated and boosted your B cells and T cells will kick the enemy out even if the front guards have cataracts on their eyes," said Dr. Chin Hong. "Hospitalizations as I said was stable but it's stable bad," said Hong-Chin."It's stable in a place where we don't want it to be."
"What it does is it lets us know the sequence of particularly the spike protein which binds to the receptor but also we do sequence to a large extent different parts of the virus that may also be important in the immune response," Dr. Dean Winslow said.
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