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Highly contagious BA.2 coronavirus variant detected in Louisville: What we know about it
Updated: 11:20 AM EDT Mar 23, 2022
An extra-contagious version of the omicron variant that has been rising in parts of Europe and Asia has now been detected in Louisville.According to Louisville Metro Health, the new variant BA.2 has been found in wastewater.BA.2 has caused about 35% of cases in the U.S. last week, up from 22% the week before, according to new estimates from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which were posted on Tuesday. Here’s what we know about BA.2 so far BA.2 is technically classified as a part of the omicron family of viruses, but genetically this strain is very different, with about 40 mutations separating it from its cousin, BA.1. That makes it about as distinct from the original omicron as alpha, beta and delta were from each other.It is more contagious than omicron’s BA.1, which was already an extremely contagious virus with a basic reproduction number, or R-naught, of about eight, according to William Hanage, an epidemiologist at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, which means that a single infected person could be expected to transmit the disease to an average of eight others.Though BA.2 is more contagious, it does not appear to cause more severe disease. And though it escapes some of the immune protection created by vaccinations and prior infections, it doesn’t seem to do so any more than BA.1.Read more here.
An extra-contagious version of the omicron variant that has been rising in parts of Europe and Asia has now been detected in Louisville.
According to Louisville Metro Health, the new variant BA.2 has been found in wastewater.
BA.2 has caused about 35% of cases in the U.S. last week, up from 22% the week before, according to new estimates from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which were posted on Tuesday.
Here’s what we know about BA.2 so far
BA.2 is technically classified as a part of the omicron family of viruses, but genetically this strain is very different, with about 40 mutations separating it from its cousin, BA.1. That makes it about as distinct from the original omicron as alpha, beta and delta were from each other.
It is more contagious than omicron’s BA.1, which was already an extremely contagious virus with a basic reproduction number, or R-naught, of about eight, according to William Hanage, an epidemiologist at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, which means that a single infected person could be expected to transmit the disease to an average of eight others.
Though BA.2 is more contagious, it does not appear to cause more severe disease. And though it escapes some of the immune protection created by vaccinations and prior infections, it doesn’t seem to do so any more than BA.1.