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Suresh V. Kuchipudi

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Questions about the pirola covid variant - What They Never Told You

The latest variant, or sublineage, of SARS-CoV-2 to emerge on the scene, BA.2.86, has public health experts on alert as COVID-19 hospitalizations begin to rise and the new variant makes its way across the globe.

The Conversation asked Suresh V. Kuchipudi, a virologist and infectious disease expert at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, to explain what researchers know about BA.2.86's ability to dodge immune protection and whether it causes more severe infection than its predecessors.

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