Stop the presses! There's a new Covid variant abroad. But disappointingly for the thinning ranks of Zero Covid fanatics, it's no more harmful than Omicron, its ancestor. Keep calm and carry on.
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Boston University unexpectedly found itself at the centre of controversy this week when its researchers published a paper on their creation of a Covid mutant that kills 80% of mice. How worried should we be?
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Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. “Stealth Omicron” is “the most transmissible yet” For those of you not keeping up with the Covid news, the latest variant just dropped. It’s …
Vaccine effectiveness against Omicron drops to zero within six months but natural immunity remains robust for at least a year, a new study from Qatar in NEJM has found.
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Fear is ramping up again. Articles are appearing talking up the threat from Omicron. Leading U.S. scientist Dr Eric Topol, Director of Scripps Research in California, has produced a classic of the genre.
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South Africa has ramped up its restrictions again in response to the recent reported rise in infections associated with new subvariants Omicron BA.4 and BA.5. But is the 'wave' already running out of steam?
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Reports that a hybrid Covid variant of Omicron and Delta dubbed 'Deltacron' is spreading across the world are not yet a cause for concern, scientists have said.
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Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1.Australia declares war on “trolls” Seemingly unhappy with how the internet can twist their totally normal “public health policies”, and somehow make it look like …
Kit Knightly Audio Version New Feature! Yesterday the WHO labelled the sars-cov-2 variant B.1.1.529 as a “variant of concern” and officially named it “Omicron”. This was as entirely predictable as it is completely meaningless. The “variants” are just tools to stretch the story out and keep people on their toes. If you want to know …
