A sub-variant of omicron has now shown up in Washington state, just two months after the first omicron cases were first detected here.
Now the work begins to figure out what threat this new version posts.
A computational biologist who works in virology lab at UW Medicine says BA2 is considered a “sub-variant of concern.”“Omicron itself is classified as a variant of the coronavirus ‘of concern,’” said Dr. Pavitra Roychoudury. “So now we can think of omicron as a big family of viruses. And within that family of viruses you’re going to have sub viruses or groupings of viruses.
Dr. Roychoudury is a computational biologist working in the virology lab at UW Medicine. She says within the family of sub variants of omicron is BA2, the one that has the health care community concerned, especially given the transmissibility of omicron.
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