‘I’m an epidemiologist, and this is what it means when COVID cases are up—but deaths remain low’

‘I’m an epidemiologist, and this is what it means when COVID cases are up—but deaths remain low’

Still, Omicron BA.2 is a highly-contagious offshoot of Omicron that’s now considered the predominant COVID-19 variant. “While we’re still learning more about the variant, studies have shown that it is more transmissible than other forms of COVID-19,”  Bernadette Boden-Albala, MPH, DrPH, director and founding dean at the University of California, Irvine Program in Public Health, previously told Well+Good.