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Tomconroy

(7,611 posts) Thu Feb 3, 2022, 07:24 PM Feb 2022

Covid BA.2 in Connecticut

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I don't know if anyone has an interest in the sub-variant BA.2 (stealth). which has appeared in europe and elsewhere and some feared it would produce a new Covid wave. It's being followed by Dr. Grubaugh at Yale, who does the Covid sequencing for the Yale-New Haven Hospital group.
The bottom line is that although it appeared in CT in early January it hasn't made any headway. BA.1 and a BA1.1 is turning up in 98 percent of the samples. Connecticut Covid cases are still dropping to low levels.
So that's good so far.

CT is basically back to pre Omicron Covid levels:

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