Though COVID-19 continues to spread in Carroll County, officials say largely vaccinated population is helping to tame severity

COVID-19 continues to spread in Carroll County, with the BA.5 subvariant proving to be more transmissible than past versions of the virus. “The variant is everywhere,” Robert Wack, deputy health officer with the Carroll County Health Department, said in an interview Thursday. “It’s the dominant strain. It’s spreading pretty much unchecked. The good news is that hospital cases are steady. They’re not going up, but they’re not going down like we hope.”