Dr. Prakash Nagarkatti, Chair of the EPSCoR/IDeA Foundation Board, with his wife Dr. Mitzi Nagarkatti, Chair of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, recently had an article entitiled, “What is the new COVID-19 variant BA.2, and will it cause another wave of infections in the US?” published in The Conversation on March 24.