It’s hard to keep up. But new Omicron sub-variants are emerging that may lead to reinfections and another spike in cases.
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Is South Africa a good comparator for how omicron will play out in the UK?
New omicron cases are doubling approximately every two days in some parts of the UK, including London.
One of the ways the Omicron variant is different from other variants is the sheer number of mutations in the spike protein. Does this make it a super-variant?
Omicron may soon arrive at the border, but New Zealand hopes to keep it out of the community through border controls, testing requirements and rapid genome sequencing of any positive cases.
How we should manage uncertainty is not a scientific issue but an ethical issue.
We won’t know whether Omicron evades COVID vaccines for another few weeks. Here’s why.
Not much data, but lessons have been learned from the slow response to delta.
It’s not spreading widely, and it’s not at Australia’s doorstep. The tools we have in place work against the coronavirus.
New variants of the COVID-19 virus may be more contagious and cause more severe disease than the original. A pediatrician and infectious disease specialist explains why.
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Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Ethics, University of Oxford
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland
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Research Fellow in Applied Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford
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Professor of Microbial Evolution at The Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde
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Lecturer in Biomedical Science (Immunology), Bangor University
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Senior Lecturer (Above the Bar) in Public Health and Co-Director of the GeoHealth Laboratory, University of Canterbury
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Early Career Research Leader, Emerging Viruses, Inflammation and Therapeutics Group, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University
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Professor, Biology, York University, Canada
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Professor of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Immunology, Morehouse School of Medicine
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Researcher and lecturer in Spatial Data Science, University of Canterbury
