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Mashup Score: 0Assessing COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against Omicron subvariants: Report from a meeting of the World Health Organization - 1 year(s) ago
Emerging in November 2021, the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant of concern exhibited marked immune evasion resulting in reduced vaccine effectiveness agains…
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Mashup Score: 21
Three currently circulating omicron subvariants of SARS-CoV-2—including two that currently make up almost 50% of reported COVID-19 infections in the U.S.—are better at evading vaccine- and infection-generated neutralizing antibodies than earlier versions of omicron, suggests new research published in Cell Host & Microbe.
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Mashup Score: 1New COVID-19 Omicron Variants: Experts Discuss - 1 year(s) ago
Two infectious disease experts say new COVID-19 Omicron variants aren’t a surprise and we should expect more new strains. Vaccines are still effective.
Source: HealthlineCategories: General Medicine News, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 5
SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants BA.2.12.1 and BA.4/5 have surged dramatically to become dominant in the United States and South Africa, respectively1,2. These novel subvariants carrying additional mutations in their spike proteins raise concerns that they may further evade neutralizing antibodies, thereby further compromising the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutic monoclonals. We now…
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Mashup Score: 0COVID subvariants could cause ‘substantial’ summer cases - 2 year(s) ago
“I expect that BA.5 will likely become the dominant virus in the United States this summer.”
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Mashup Score: 0New Omicron Variants 'Fuelling Third COVID-19 Wave' - 2 year(s) ago
The more transmissible BA.4 and BA.5 variants of Omicron have led to a rapid increase in the number of COVID infections and re-infections across the UK.
Source: Medscape UKCategories: Cardiology News and Journals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Now confirmed as having reached Rhode Island, the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants currently account for 7.2% of new COVID-19 cases in New England
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Mashup Score: 3A guide to help you keep up with the omicron subvariants - 2 year(s) ago
How different are these subvariants from one another? Can infection by one subvariant protect someone from infection by another subvariant? And how well are the existing coronavirus vaccines — which were developed before omicron’s emergence — doing against the subvariants?
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Mashup Score: 0WHO says it is analyzing two new Omicron COVID subvariants - 2 year(s) ago
Only a few dozen cases of BA.4 and BA.5 have been reported to the global GISAID database.
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