With continued spread of the highly contagious BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants, Cook County health officials are “strongly recommending” residents take added precautions.
"Variants continue to worry people and they should worry people," Arwady said during a Facebook Live Tuesday."Every time we have a new variant that emerges, it's the part that is the least control with COVID. If the COVID virus didn't mutate at all from here on out, I would have no questions about what we do to sort of get us out of COVID.
The BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants also account for the majority of new COVID cases in the U.S., according to health officials. When it comes to symptoms, runny nose, sore throat, headache, fatigue and persistent cough appear to be most common of the fastest-spreading variants, according to Dr. Jonathan Martin, an infectious disease physician with Cook County Health.
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