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Most Infectious Coronavirus yet, Skirts Past Antibodies

BA.5 — now believed to be the cause of nearly all COVID infections — is tied with (and may even surpass) measles in terms of its infectiousness and transmissibility. That makes it the most infectious of all SARS-CoV-2 variants, and one of the most infectious viruses known to man. Fortunately, it’s also considerably less deadly than the original Wuhan strain