Omicron

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    How strong is your immunity against Omicron?

    For months, scientists, public health officials, politicians and the general public have debated whether prior SARS-CoV-2 infection — touted as “natural immunity” — offers protection against COVID-19 that is comparable to vaccines. Yahoo News spoke to two experts about natural immunity and vaccine-induced immunity in the time of Omicron. They explain what you can do to maximize your protection against the highly transmissible variant.

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    Omicron subvariant BA.2 is rising. What do we know about it?

    Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, and just when new cases and hospitalizations in the U.S are on the decline, an Omicron subvariant called BA.2 is gaining significant traction in some parts of the world. Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease specialist and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco explains what we know about it.

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    Government scientists monitoring new BA.2 variant of Omicron

    The government has confirmed it is investigating the BA.2 variant of Omicron, but due to its specific mutations, it is proving to be harder to track.

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    Why some people in close quarters get COVID-19 — and others don’t

    At this point of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the highly transmissible Omicron variant, it may be an all-too-familiar story: You know of a fully vaccinated household where some people tested positive for COVID — and others in the same household never tested positive at all. How is this possible? Yahoo News Medical Contributor and practicing internist Dr. Lucy McBride explains how people and the virus relate to one another in very different ways depending on various factors.