LOS ANGELES — Are people in your life being infected with the coronavirus, even after being caught up in an earlier wave?
You aren’t alone. For the third straight year, the arrival of summer has brought fresh uncertainties about the COVID-19 outlook in California.
The latest development upending the pandemic landscape is the growing dominance of two subvariants — BA.5 and, to a lesser degree, BA.4 — that not only are ultra-contagious but have shown the ability to reinfect those who contracted earlier omicron strains.