New COVID variant is still really unpredictable, experts say. Heres why – Deseret News

By now, theres a good chance youve heard about the BA.2 variant of the coronavirus but experts are unsure about what to make of it.

Driving the news: Experts recently told The Daily Beast that the new BA.2 COVID-19 variant has been confusing because it has dominated some countries while remaining mostly absent from other parts of the world.

The bigger picture: COVID-19 cases are still spreading across the world. China has had to contend with new coronavirus subtypes including new mutations of the omicron variant, per Bloomberg as the United Kingdom has had to battle omicron XE, a hybrid version of two omicron variant mutations.

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