COVID-19’s BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants: 12 questions, answered
The Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 are behind an increase in COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations. We spoke with MD Anderson’s Chief Infection Control Officer, Roy Chemaly, M.D., to learn about these new and highly contagious subvariants.
What exactly are the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants?
They’re the most transmissible and immune-evasive strains of the COVID-19 virus to date. Today, they’re causing around 80%...
In sickness and in health: Husband and wife face back-to-back cancer diagnoses
Carolyn Drone thought her days of coping with cancer were over. She’d finished leukemia treatment two years earlier and showed no signs of...