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This Relentless COVID Variant Is the Most Dangerous One Yet

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The BA.5 subvariant can slip past the body’s defenses easier than any of its predecessors.

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The latest subvariant of the novel coronavirus to become dominant in Europe, the United States, and other places is also, in many ways, the worst so far.

The BA.5

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