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...
What is Omicron? The B.1.1.529 Variant of SARS-Cov-2 is the latest mutation to be reported as of November 24th, 2021. It is named Omicron, after the 15th letter of the Greek Alphabet. The Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution met today to review what is known about...
Night sweats, another symptom cited by a doctor at amedia briefingin South Africa early in the country's Omicron wave, has beentouted by tabloidsas "a telltale sign which only happens at night that could mean you have been hit by the Omicron variant." However, the symptom is not new —...
文章结构全文精读Paragraph 1①A LITTLE MORE than a year after the first success of a covid-19 vaccine in a clinical trial, a sense of dread has struck much of the world. ②The Omicron variant of the…
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
against specific strains of the virus. These drugs are not thought to be effective for any variant of the virusfrom omicron XBB.1.5 onwards, which includes the current wave. This is because these drugs recognize certain proteins expressed on the surface of SARS-CoV-2, which have changed over...
The Omicron sublineage BA.5 is a more contagious variant. It spreads faster and has an improved capability to escape the immune system, experts said. The latest study in South Africa shows that BA.5 has an R0 value of 18.6, w...
With the World Health Organisation listing Omicron as a 'variant of concern,' and the UK tightening COVID-19 measures, we ask: what are the symptoms of Omicron?
With the rapid spread of the Omicron variant since early this year, there has been much talk about China's COVID zero response. According to some, China's relentless pursuit of COVID zero is unsustainable when the rest of the world has largely opened up. The economic fallout is too heavy...
Fig. 2. The figure represents the major differences among the sublineages of the Omicron variant. The unique mutations in the sublineages can be associated with the varying levels of transmissibility and severity of the disease. It is important to notice that the recently emerged BA.4 and BA....