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The World Health Organization has classified the EG.5 family of Omicron variants, including Eris, as ‘variants of interest’. What does that mean? And how does Eris differ to other Omicron variants?
Australia is in the middle of its fifth Omicron wave, which has been brewing since February. But it’s been slow and drawn out and the health impacts are very different to earlier waves.
Many questions remain about next steps for US vaccine policy. But the FDA advisory panel’s hearty endorsement of a single-composition COVID-19 vaccine represents a pivotal step.
The new bivalent boosters against COVID-19 have failed to halt omicron infections. However, new technologies are being developed that pave a way forward.
The evidence so far suggests this wave could be a shorter and smaller version of the Omicron BA.5 wave.
There are so many forms of the virus, it’s hard to keep up. Here’s what to expect next as the virus mutates and recombines.
Just because a variant spreads faster, it doesn’t necessarily mean it has a higher R0.
What’s the difference between a variant and a subvariant? It’s all in the behaviour.
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Head of School of Population Health and Professor, Infectious Diseases Dynamics and Interventions, UNSW
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