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“If BA.2 follows the same pattern in the U.S. as observed in countries like the United Kingdom, Denmark or India, we could observe a slowing of the current decline in new cases,” said Ramon Lorenzo-Redondo, the bioinformatics director at Northwestern Medicine’s Center for Pathogen Genomics and Microbial Evolution, in a news release. “In this case, the number of new cases could stabilize for a while before starting to decrease again. It is still too soon to know because there are still very few BA.2 cases in the U.S.”

“If BA.2 follows the same pattern in the U.S. as observed in countries like the United Kingdom, Denmark or India, we could observe a slowing of the current decline in new cases,” said Ramon Lorenzo-Redondo, the bioinformatics director at Northwestern Medicine’s Center for Pathogen Genomics and Microbial Evolution, in a news release. “In this case, the number of new cases could stabilize for a while before starting to decrease again. It is still too soon to know because there are still very few BA.2 cases in the U.S.”

From left to right, front, Aaron Horowitz of Northbrook and Ellen Dickson of Glenview sweep the ice in front of the moving stone. In the back is teammate Lis Collins of Evanston, who grew up in Northbrook and is a 2003 Glenbrook North High School graduate. Images from the Chicago Curling Club on Jan. 31, 2022 in Northbrook (555 Dundee Road). (Karie Angell Luc / Pioneer Press)

Pedestrians walk past the New York Stock Exchange, Jan. 24, 2022, in New York. Stocks are off to a weak start on Wall Street Monday, Jan. 31, 2022 keeping the S&P 500 index on track to end January with its worst monthly loss since March 2020, when pandemic shutdowns started to seize up the economy. (John Minchillo/AP)