Are we gearing up for another COVID-19 surge in Illinois?

A virologist gives us the latest on the rapidly-spreading BA.5 omicron subvariant.

By Claire Hyman
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A health worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 to be applied to children from 5 to 11 years old, in Mexico City, on June 27, 2022. Pedro Pardo/AFP / Getty Images
nurse holding vaccine
A health worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 to be applied to children from 5 to 11 years old, in Mexico City, on June 27, 2022. Pedro Pardo/AFP / Getty Images

Are we gearing up for another COVID-19 surge in Illinois?

A virologist gives us the latest on the rapidly-spreading BA.5 omicron subvariant.

By Claire Hyman
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As BA.5 becomes the dominant COVID-19 strain in much of the country, Reset checks in with an expert to find out what precautions we should be taking.

GUEST: Hannah Barbian, virologist at Rush University Medical Center