Keep Up Your Guard: Omicron Subvariants May Be the Most Infectious of All Known Viruses

Neck and neck with measles?

Ummmmm – where’s my mask?

“COVID was relatively deadly, but not ultra-transmissible when it burst onto the global scene in late 2019 and early 2020.”

“These days, due a number of factors, the reverse is true: It's considerably less lethal, but more exponentially transmissible.”

“Globally dominant Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 are neck and neck with measles in the competition for the title of most infectious disease known to man…”

Yikes.

I’m merely a layman. But I do know this: viruses like to mutate.

For the present, COVID is, perhaps, less lethal than it was.

Ah, but what if it were to mutate to become highly transmissible AND more lethal?

The pandemic ain’t over, folks. Be careful out there.

Source:

https://fortune.com/2022/07/09/is-covid-omicron-more-transmissible-infectious-than-measles-ba4-ba5/