America's Next Omicron Wave (with Bill Hanage)
In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt
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B a Two
Omicron is a very peculiar varient, and it comes in multiple flavors. The one that we had before was b a one. B a two is also omicron, but it's quite different fromb a one. They they diverged about a year. We don't know where, we don't know exactly where it came from. My own batus on a very long term in faction in an immuna compromised individual. May be multiple in muni compromised individuals. But when b a two is sufficiently divergent that it is quite different from b a one, and it appears to be transmitting more successfully than b a one,. We have seen it take over in es like
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