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COVID Q&A: Top Boston Doctors on Rising Cases, In-Home Transmission and BA.2 12.1

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MassachusettsMay 18, 2022 6:42 am

COVID Q&A: Top Boston Doctors on Rising Cases, In-Home Transmission and BA.2 12.1

Top Boston doctors explain why some people living in the same household get COVID while others don’t, how BA2.12 is taking over as the dominant strain and why the virus is developing a resistance to the antiviral drug remdesivir during NBC10 Boston’s weekly series, “COVID Q&A.”

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COVID Q&A: Top Boston Doctors on Rising Cases, In-Home Transmission and BA.2 12.1

COVID Q&A: Top Boston Doctors on Rising Cases, In-Home Transmission and BA.2 12.1

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