COVID-19 reinfections on the rise as officials call for a new booster

The Washington State Department of Health has released a new report showing that COVID-19 reinfection rates are rising as the new BA.5 strain becomes the most infectious yet.

In the report, graphs show an increase in reinfections in December 2021 at the start of the Omicron strain surge before falling off in February 2022.

A similar pattern is seen with the COVID-19 BA.5 strain with reinfections slowly increasing starting in May 2022. The difference? Instead of peaking and falling quickly over the course of a few months, the resurgence of reinfections has plateaued during the summer months, neither reaching the same peaks of the Omicron surge or falling as

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