April 11, 2023
Why haven’t there been any new variants since Omicron?
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Jennifer Beam Dowd, PhD
We currently have lots of “sub-variants” that are direct offspring of Omicron, but they don’t qualify for new Greek letters from the WHO because they aren’t different enough from previous variants of concern. TL;DR: SARS-CoV-2 is still evolving, but it’s not making as large of genetic leaps as it once did. This has left us Read more…
We currently have lots of “sub-variants” that are direct offspring of Omicron, but they don’t qualify for new Greek letters from the WHO because they aren’t different enough from previous variants of concern. TL;DR: SARS-CoV-2 is still evolving, but it’s not making as large of genetic leaps as it once did. This has left us Read more…