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The Kraken COVID variant isn’t different enough from other Omicrons to get a Greek letter, WHO...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoRecent Omicron variants like XBB.1.5 aren’t distinct enough to be assigned new, more recognizable...
Omicron just as deadly as earlier Covid variants, Harvard scientists claim
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Omicron variant of Covid-19 is just as potent as other variants that came before it, according...
Meet the biology professor who named the surging ‘Kraken’ COVID variant. He has more to help make...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoEveryone knows the names of the major COVID variants Alpha, Delta, and Omicron. But last year, viral...
Stealth Omicron rates are falling in one bellwether city. But tracking case numbers is becoming...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoOmicron’s BA.2 subvariant—stealth Omicron—is spreading across the U.S., accounting for 68% of all...
New COVID-19 omicron variants show up in Travis County as cases rise
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAustin Public Health has found two new COVID-19 omicron variants in Travis County. As of Friday, the...
BA.4, BA.5, 2 new Omicron variants detected in the U.S., could spark another COVID wave. Research...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoTwo new strains of COVID that appear to be more transmissible than even “stealth Omicron,” and that...
BA.4 and BA.5, two new Omicron variants sweeping South Africa, detected in U.S.
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoTwo new Omicron variants sweeping South Africa—likely able to evade vaccines and natural immunity...
Meet the ‘Kraken’ COVID variant—the dominant new Omicron ‘escape strain’ experts say is the most...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoXBB.1.5 has rapidly replaced other variants in some European countries and in the Northeast U.S.,...
What to Know About BA.2.86, the COVID Variant Spreading in the US
Health via Yahoo News· 5 months agoOmicron variant BA.2.86 is now making up a larger proportion of COVID cases, according to the CDC....
Scientists have their eyes on several ‘Deltacrons’—new COVID variants with the potential to attack...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoEarlier this year, all eyes were on “Deltacron”—a Frankenvirus, of sorts, that combined Delta and...