Fortune July 6, 2022
World Health Organization officials Wednesday said they’re tracking a new Omicron subvariant, BA.2.75, as it rises to prominence in India, competing with the BA.5 variant which is currently sweeping the globe.
BA.2.75 has been reported in “about 10 other countries” and has not been declared a variant of concern, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, WHO’s chief scientist, said in a Tuesday tweet. Transmissibility, severity, and potential for immune evasion are currently unknown, she said.
But experts are already raising potential red flags. Dr. Eric Topol, a professor of molecular medicine at Scripps Research and founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, said Monday the new subvariant’s mutations “could make immune escape worse than what...
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