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Für alle, die noch nicht ganz irreversibel auf dem Corona-ist-vorbei-Trip sind:

Eric Topol:
The BA.5 story
The takeover by this Omicron sub-variant is not pretty

The Omicron sub-variant BA.5 is the worst version of the virus that we’ve seen. It takes immune escape, already extensive, to the next level, and, as a function of that, enhanced transmissibility, well beyond Omicron (BA.1) and other Omicron family variants that we’ve seen (including BA.1.1, BA.2, BA.2.12.1, and BA.4). You could say it’s not so bad because there hasn’t been a marked rise in hospitalizations and deaths as we saw with Omicron, but that’s only because we had such a striking adverse impact from Omicron, for which there is at least some cross-immunity (BA.1 to BA.5). Here I will review (1) what we know about its biology; (2) its current status around the world; and (3) the ways we can defend against it.
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It’s frankly sickening to watch this virus continue to outrun us, knowing we are so damn capable of getting ahead of it.
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-ba5-story