If you were infected with COVID-19 during the first Omicron wave, you 'really don't have a lot of good protection' against the BA.5 subvariant: Fauci https://www.yahoo.com/news/were-infected-covid-19-during-151206425.html " Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday that the BA.5 subvariant "substantially evades" antibodies from both vaccination and prior infection. " " But vaccination and up-to-date booster shots have been shown to substantially reduce the risk of ending up in the ICU with serious infection, " "Fauci recognized that BA.5 — and future COVID-19 variants — will continue to appear as long as the virus spreads unchecked. "