Fast-spreading BA2 is fueling the worst outbreak in the country since the COVID pandemic began.
Just as New Yorkers begin embracing a post-COVID world without masks or mandates, health officials are again nervously watching China.
"It's transmissibility is much easier. You can be in contact with someone for a briefer period of time and still get it," said Dr. Ernest Patti of St. Barnabas Hospital. Data from the New York State Health Department shows BA2 is doubling in proportion statewide every two weeks, accounting for 10 percent of new infections.
Here in the U.S., COVID cases have plunged to the lowest levels in eight months, but breakthrough cases are still interrupting life.
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