'Don't Panic': U.S. Has Tools to Manage BA.5, White House Says

The BA.5 Omicron subvariant is dominating now and accounts for 65% – or about two-thirds – of the virus producing COVID-19 in the United States, federal officers stated on Tuesday. While no evidence but points to BA.5 causing much more critical ailment, hospitalization numbers are up in the earlier few months and circumstance quantities are on the increase with this very transmissible strain of the virus.