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How will we cope with the Omicron variant?

The Inquiry

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Is There a New Variant?

The response doesn't really encourage countries to say, we think we've found a new variant. Does it exactly? It's a real challenge whether people may think twice the next time about reporting openly and transparently. But report it, south africa did. And not only that, was able to rapidly publish the genome for scientists around the world to examine it,. then establish whether it had started to spread in their own populations. Our third expert witness is francois balou, whos based university college london. He mostly works on the genomic side of pathegans, the organisms that cause disease. When he looks at the genetic sequence of a variant, he tries to work out

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