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Omicron subvariant BA.2.12.1 is now the leading variant in the US closely followed by omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 which are said to be more transmissible and more likely to be the cause of breakthrough infections regardless of previous infection or vaccination/booster.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/battle-omicron-being-won-ba-035043781.html

For Week Ending 5/28 in LA County, there were 132,830 new infections reported, a 3.34% increase from the previous week. The new strain of the omicron subvariant is more virulent and contagious than its predecessors. Nationally, cases are FIVE times higher than this time last year. All of this and some productions are working without a mask requirement. We will not work on those productions. The link for LA numbers is in the comments.

Covid was vanishing last Memorial Day. Cases are five times higher now. For the third year, Americans are greeting the unofficial start of summer shadowed by the specter of the coronavirus amid rising covid-19 cases and hospitalizations across the country. The United States is recording more than 100,000 infections a day - at least five times higher than this point last...

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Omicron sweeps across nation, now 73% of new US COVID cases Omicron has raced ahead of other variants and is now the dominant version of the coronavirus in the U.S., accounting for 73% of new infections last week, federal health officials said Monday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention numbers showed nearly a six-fold increase in omicron's share....