COVID VariantsWill Omicron BA.5 Be the Last of the COVID Variants?CopyFacebookXTruthGettrLinkedInTelegramEmailSaveCreative rendition of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles. Note: not to scale. NIAID [shorturl.at/hHKWY]By Mercura Wang and Yuhong Dong, M.D., Ph.D.8/16/2022Updated: 3/14/2023PrintOn January 20, 2020, the first case of COVID-19 emerged in the United States. More than 30 months on, the pandemic is still considered ongoing.