The Omicron variant has quickly outcompeted the previously dominating Delta variant. This JVirology Editors study provides an overview of the mutations in the Omicron genome and the resulting changes in viral proteins compared to other COVID-19 strains asm.social/v0

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In this highly cited study, researchers at UTMB Health found that the African green monkey is an accurate model of human COVID-19 and provides new insight into several important aspects of COVID-19: virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… Blog: blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-health/2020…

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Fully vaccinated people had a reduced infectious viral load for the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 compared to unvaccinated people, according to a Nature Medicine paper. In Omicron breakthrough cases, reduced viral load was only observed in boosted people. go.nature.com/3KLO8wS

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Understanding how and why microbial pathogens emerge is more important than ever. vilhelmiina h journeys through pig guts, plastispheres and Floridian lagoons to explore what we can learn by studying pathogens on their home turf: asm.social/xG

Climate change will force new animal encounters — and boost viral outbreaks nature.com/articles/d4158… #ClimateEmergency

As the virus evolves to be more fit over time, we're sequentially climbing the ladder of infectiousness

Thanks for all the positive responses on this poll! I am working on a video (or a short series of videos) which will go into more depth describing how T cells kill cancer and what is being shown in these videos.

Inter-domain communication in SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins controls protease-triggered cell entry dlvr.it/SPlPHv