Will Omicron's newest subvariant, BA.2.75, be the next one to worry about?
It was first found in early June in India. As of July 17, it had been found in
"I wouldn't panic yet," agrees Rajendram Rajnarayanan, PhD, an assistant dean of research and associate professor at Arkansas State University, who has been tracking BA.2.75. But laboratory analysis"is only half the equation," says Peter Chin-Hong, MD, a professor of medicine and an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco. Many other things play into whether a variant will spread."It's too early to tell from a virus perspective what will happen," he says of the new variant.
Having a name, instead of a string of letters and numbers, helps get messages across to the public, says Rajnarayanan, who's started to use #Centaurus on his Twitter posts. He would encourage the World Health Organization to name all the variants."You want to make sure people have something easy to go by," he says.Eric Topol, MD, editor-in-chief, Medscape; executive vice president, Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA.
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