Two recent studies confirm the Omicron variant is very bad new in terms of infectiousness, ability to evade immunity, and resistance to existing therapies. In addition, UK data hints that there’s no significant difference in severity between Omicron and Delta.
Read moreOmicron is much more transmissible than any SARS-CoV-2 variant so far. But it could also, just possibly, be the beginnings of the long winding road to Covid becoming less deadly.
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Travel in the time of Covid is worse in some ways than pre-pandemic travel, and weirdly better in others. And—miracles!—many summer flowers were still in bloom when we got home.
Read moreTeam Vaccine has Team Virus—even with its superstar variants waiting on the bench—comprehensively beaten
Read moreWhat have I been up to in the last month? Many things! And not much.
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Nicola Griffith 