This week, Central New York's reinfection rate is less than double the statewide average per 100,000 residents (5.6 vs. It could be a function of the subvariants or waning vaccine efficacy or any number of combined factors. Last week, state data showed Central New York had a COVID reinfection rate nearly three times the state average, though it's not clear why. New York health officials raised a fresh flag earlier this month when they said the higher-than-national rate of emergence of the subvariants in certain counties in the Central and Western regions and said they believed BA.2.12.1 was to blame. Neither is necessarily cause for concern, given lacking scientific evidence to suggest the subvariants cause more severe disease or are more resistant to vaccines, but if the case upticks translate into soaring hospitalizations, both could be. And BA.2.12.1's share of cases in the New York region was estimated to be around 12% at that time.īoth increases illustrate once again the rapid, albeit expected, pace at which the main omicron variant and its subvariants have usurped New York and the U.S. prevalence was estimated to be about 19%.Īs of Tuesday, BA.2.12.1 accounts for an estimated 58.1% of New York region cases - and could account for as much as 71.5% - CDC data shows, while its national prevalence has risen to an estimated 29% of the case total.Ī month ago, that national number was 3.3%, the CDC says. It's likely no coincidence that the first subvariant, BA.2.12.1 is spreading significantly faster in the New York region than nationally.Īccording to the CDC, that subvariant became dominant locally a week ago, accounting for an estimated 52.3% of all COVID-19 circulating in the region, which for the agency's purposes also includes New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Early findings indicate those strains could be up to 27% higher than BA.2, which was said to be up to 60% more contagious than the original omicron strain that sparked unprecedented case rates and COVID hospitalizations across the U.S. More impactful, perhaps, have been the two COVID variants that descended from the original omicron strain - BA.2.12.1 and BA.2.12. Serena Williams Loses to Ajla Tomljanović in Potential Final Career Match at US Open

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