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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Melody Schreiber

‘Headed in a bad direction’: Omicron variant may bring second-largest US COVID wave

More than one in three Americans live in a county at medium risk from Covid, and one in five are at high risk.
More than one in three Americans live in a county at medium risk from Covid, and one in five are at high risk. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images

The BA.5 version of Covid-19 has become the majority variant of the virus in America in a matter of weeks, in a troubling development that comes amid what may already be America’s second-largest wave of the pandemic.

It also comes at a time when much of the US has relaxed nearly all Covid restrictions in public and life has largely returned to normal.

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