Where is the next COVID variant, pi? A virologist explains why omicron is continuing to dominate

By Victoria Easton, Virology Research and Teaching Fellow, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds

The omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has now been around for more than a year. Before omicron became dominant, there had been a quick succession of named variants of concern – from alpha, to beta, to gamma, to delta. But now it seems as though we’re facing a never-ending string of letter and number combinations denoting the children and grandchildren of omicron: BA.2, BA.2.75,…

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