NEW VARIANT Omicron - How Bad Is It?

There is a lot of concern about more than 50 mutations in the new SARS-COV-2 variant. WHO has dubbed it variant of concern and named it Omicron. Let's see if it can be more contagious, deadly, and will escape our existing immunity due to previous infection or vaccines.

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References

Mutations: G142D/Δ143-145, Δ211/L212I, ins214EPE, G339D, S371L, S373P, S375F, K417N, N440K, G446S, S477N, T478K, E484A, Q493K, G496S, Q498R, N501Y, Y505H, T547K, D614G, H655Y, N679K, P681H, N764K, D796Y, N856K, Q954H, N969K, L981F

Conserved non-Spike mutations - NSP3 – K38R, V1069I, Δ1265/L1266I, A1892T; NSP4 – T492I; NSP5 – P132H; NSP6 – Δ105-107, A189V; NSP12 – P323L; NSP14 – I42V; E – T9I; M – D3G, Q19E, A63T; N – P13L, Δ31-33, R203K, G204R

WHO https://www.who.int/news/item/26-11-2...
GISAID: https://www.gisaid.org/hcov19-variants/
NY Times. Great article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/he...
About the changes: https://www.worldofmolecules.com/3D/B...
https://ourworldindata.org/coronaviru...
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/bi...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/gl...
https://www.gisaid.org/
https://www.gisaid.org/hcov19-variants/
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/43/e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omicron


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