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Do at-home COVID-19 tests detect the omicron variant?
Do at-home COVID-19 tests detect the omicron variant?
Dec 30, 2021
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Will omicron be more contagious than delta? A virus evolution expert explains
A new variant named omicron (B.1.1.529) was reported by researchers in South Africa on Nov. 24, 2021, and designated a "variant of concern" by the World Health Organization two days later. Omicron is very unusual in that ...
Dec 1, 2021
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Why are there so many new omicron sub-variants, like BA.4 and BA.5? Will I be reinfected? Is the virus mutating faster?
By now, many of us will be familiar with the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID. This variant of concern has changed the course of the pandemic, leading to a dramatic rise in cases around the world.
May 6, 2022
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New research detects a growing trend of antibody evasion by new omicron subvariants
Three currently circulating omicron subvariants of SARS-CoV-2—including two that currently make up almost 50% of reported COVID-19 infections in the U.S.—are better at evading vaccine- and infection-generated neutralizing ...
Nov 22, 2022
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The scientific race to understand the omicron variant
Late last year, preliminary studies revealed that the fast-spreading omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant was likely to evade COVID-19 antibodies but, in many people, less so than expected. Now one of those studies from Karolinska ...
Mar 18, 2022
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Omicron spreads faster and weakens jabs: WHO
The Omicron coronavirus variant is more transmissible than the Delta strain and reduces vaccine efficacy but causes less severe symptoms according to early data, the World Health Organization said Sunday.
Dec 12, 2021
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Increased infectivity, antibody escape drive SARS-CoV-2 evolution
First announced by the World Health Organization on Nov. 26, 2021, the SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant spread rapidly around the world, becoming the dominant variant in the U.S. and elsewhere. Now, researchers report in ACS Infectious ...
Feb 16, 2022
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Can you get long COVID after an infection with omicron?
Can you get long COVID after an infection with omicron?
Feb 9, 2022
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Omicron infection just 20 days after Delta—the shortest known gap between infections
Researchers in Spain give details of a 31-year-old woman who caught COVID-19 twice within three weeks, in a case report being presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) ...
Apr 21, 2022
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Study finds COVID-19 subvariant BA.2 does not cause more severe illness than BA.1
In a study published in Nature on May 16, a research team led by University of Wisconsin–Madison virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka and colleagues in Japan show that the BA.2 subvariant of omicron is similar to BA.1 in both the ...
May 23, 2022
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