After a brief two-month plateau, COVID-19 cases are rising again in the United States, propelled by the Omicron BA.2 subvariant and its more transmissible descendants. The uptick has experts worried, ...
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, health officials have warned that the biggest barrier to controlling the virus would be its ability to mutate into ever more infectious and dangerous forms. The ...
The subvariant of Omicron is becoming more common in the United States but probably won’t cause another large spike. By Carl Zimmer As the Omicron coronavirus surge subsides, researchers are keeping ...
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It is basically another flavour of omicron that has been around right from the start. The term omicron is used to describe a whole family of variants that appeared suddenly in November 2021. Most ...