The “omicron variant” discovered in South Africa may be a super-spreadable mutant. Here’s what you need to know
for visitors from South Africa and seven other nearby African nations. Earlier, the European Union blocked fights from South Africa in an attempt to slow the variant’s spread. Global markets are down nearly two percent in Friday trading.According to Slavitt, the world will have to live with uncertainty for a while: “It will take 2 weeks or so to test in a lab whether the mRNA vaccines are effective,” he tweets, “and if so, how effective they are.
The Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution met today to review what is known about the
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