It was a big year for viruses, which simply refused to be ignored. And unlike the previous two years, COVID had to share the spotlight.
A computer-generated image of the omicron variant of the coronavirus. SARS-CoV-2 is shown in this colorized transmission electron micrograph.Uma Shankar Sharma/Getty Images and Science Source
With COVID, we spent the early part of the year scrutinizing the omicron variant. How bad is it? How immune are we? Why does it have a sibling? And we wondered about vaccines, not just here, but around the world. And why is there this strange subset of people who never seem to get COVID? Keeping up with viruses in 2022 was like a game of Whac-A-Mole — as soon as you felt you had one figured out another would pop up, only to be followed by a variant of the first one.
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