All posts by Paul Griffin
Better COVID vaccines are on the way. What do they do? And what technology might we see in future?
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Regulators in Australia and the United States last week approved Omicron-specific boosters, following approval in the United Kingdom in mid-August. In Australia, a Moderna Omicron booster has been provisionally approved for use in adults aged 18 and over….
When is a COVID mutation a new variant, and when is it a subvariant? And what’s a recombinant?
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. We’ve all become familiar with virus mutations over the course of the pandemic, and can all probably list off the COVID variants including Alpha, Delta and Omicron. But now we’re hearing more and more about subvariants, as Omicron…
What’s the new Omicron XE variant and should I be worried?
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. It seems every few weeks we hear about a new COVID variant, and it’s hard to know how concerned we ought to be. A “recombinant” variant has emerged, dubbed “Omicron XE”, which is the result of two omicron…