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COVID spreads in China

Unexpected Elements

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The Evolution of Omicron Viruses

Omicron currently describes BA1 to BA5 and then everything that has evolved from those lineages. There's a lot of variety in what circulates now, particularly stuff from BA2 and BA5. So we've seen massive diversification within these lineages now. We're seeing a lot of the same sorts of mutations happening on different branches of the omicron tree.

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