The World Health Organization declared the recently discovered B.1.1.529 strain of the COVID-19 virus to be a variant of concern on November 26 and renamed it Omicron. The classification puts Omicron into the most-troubling category of COVID-19 variants, along with the globally dominant Delta...
With the decreasing pathogenicity of the coronavirus Omicron and expanding COVID-19 vaccination coverage, China is now facing new challenges of how to protect the general population, especially those at high risk of severe illness, and how to deal with the need for their medication? Wang Guiqian...
However, Trevor Bedford, a researcher studying the evolution of viruses, says Omicron has not emerged from a recent variant. In fact, it seems Omicron’s closest evolutionary connection is a strain of SARS-CoV-2 from mid-2020. “This extremely long branch (>1 year) indicates an extended per...
Dec 5, 2021 CBS Face the Nation Illumina CEO explains what scientists are studying to determine if Omicron variant is more transmissible Dec 2, 2021 FOX 5 San Diego 1st U.S. Omicron Case Detected In California Nov 30, 2021 Politico Testing labs brace for first U.S. cases of Omicron Nov...
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Why is it called ‘stealth’? BA. 2 is somewhat sneakier than the already sneaky BA. 1, hence its name. In addition to its speed, BA. 2 doesn’t have a mutation that BA. 1 had – a deletion in the spike gene – which made that strain easier to identify as omicron on PCR tests...
You may have seen headlines recently about the omicron variant of COVID-19, or read about it on social media. There's still a great deal of uncertainty about this new variant, and some of the information people are sharing can be misleading. So we want t
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Is Omicron a Tsunami? What should be the strategy to prevent the loss?The COVID-19 pandemic began in December 2019 with the 5th wave setting in from January 2022. Every wave was due to the emergence of a new variant of the virus. The first wave was caused by the Wu...
There are plenty of reasons to be optimistic as the aerospace industry enters 2022 – although the rapid spread of the Omicron variant since late November proves Covid-19 will be with us for some time, and that any return to normality is unlikely to be linear. ...