BA.5 becomes dominant US omicron subvariant
The omicron subvariant BA.5 is now the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the U.S. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), BA.5 now makes up 53.6% of cases nationwide. The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center shows there have been 179,507 new COVID-19 cases and more than 430 deaths in the…