Priority letter: the Omicron variant
The Intelligence from The Economist
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Is Delta Taking Over South Africa?
High transmissability is of an echo of the delta story, a highly transmissible variant that eventually cane took over the world. And because delta has been the predominant variant in south africa, there is an indication that this new variant, omicron, is actually supplanting delta. So it's far from guaranteed that this variant is going to supplant delta all over theworld. But for now, most scientists think that the vacinites are still going to be effective - even if they may turn out to be somewhat less effective.
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