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Should we worry about the latest Omicron subvariants?

Unexpected Elements

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Is B a Two the Dominant Form Globally Speaking?

B a two is currently the dominant form globally speaking. There's another descendant of b a two called b a two 12 that has become very, very dominant in the us. The rapidity with which it took over suggests it is much, much more transmissible than B a 2. And so our experiments with their evasion properties from antibodies. So you're challenging these farints with sera aru from patients and with some of these monoclonal antibodies attes in treatments. Exactly right. We could study the properties of the spike of these new subverians. That's how our experiments are carried out.

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