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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...
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...
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...
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.,...
Scientists have their eyes on several ‘Deltacrons’—new COVID variants with the potential to attack...
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoEarlier this year, all eyes were on “Deltacron”—a Frankenvirus, of sorts, that combined Delta and...
What to Know About BA.2.86, the COVID Variant Spreading in the US
Health via Yahoo News· 6 months agoOmicron variant BA.2.86 is now making up a larger proportion of COVID cases, according to the CDC....
Is the latest COVID-19 variant another omicron?
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe latest COVID-19 variant, B.2.86, has an ‘alarming’ number of mutations not seen since last year’s omicron surge. Cases are already being reported...
‘Arcturus,’ a COVID variant sweeping India, is now in the U.S., the CDC says—and it’s coming in hot....
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoA new Omicron spawn fueling a surge of cases in India—considered the most transmissible COVID...
The omicron subvariant now dominating the U.S. is ‘the worst version of the virus that we’ve seen’
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoNew immune-evading Omicron subvariant BA.5 is now dominant in the U.S., and previous heavy hitter...
‘Stealth Omicron’ was just overtaken in the U.S. by a new subvariant that evades immunity
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoIt’s not clear whether the even stealthier Omicron will cause a new wave of infections—a “wave upon...