Health experts around the world are sounding the alarm as they begin to report omicron BA.5, The coronavirus The strain that is currently overtaking other forms of infection and has become the dominant strain in We And abroad, contracting the virus has the potential to re-infect people within weeks.
Andrew Robertson, Chief Health Officer of Western Australia News.com.au Although it was previously believed that most people would maintain a certain level of protection against reinfection if they were vaccinated or maintained some level of natural immunity due to recent contractions of the virus, this has not been the case until recently. . stress.
“What we are seeing is an increasing number of people who have been infected with BA.2 and then become infected after four weeks,” the doctor explained during an interview with an Australian news outlet. “So maybe six to eight weeks they’re developing a second infection, and it’s almost certainly BA.4 or BA.5.”
The ability of strains of BA.4 and BA.5 to re-infect individuals who had strong immunity in previous waves of Covid-19 has led some experts to call this latest strain the most transmissible yet .
“They’re taking, so clearly they’re more contagious than the older variants of Omicron,” David Montefiori, a professor at the Human Vaccine Institute at Duke University Medical Center, said in an interview. NBC News,
