COVID-19 remains a global public health threat despite its current non-pandemic status.
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Researchers still don’t know how well BA.2.86 will evade immunity or whether it will cause more severe disease than its predecessors.
XBB.1.5 and other subvariants do signal a change in how the virus is mutating. Here’s what this means for Australia and globally.
The XBB.1.5 subvariant — nicknamed ‘Kraken’ — is arguably the most genetically rich and most transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariant yet.
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Professor of Medicine, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, and Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Western University
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Epidemiologist, Epidemiological Modelling Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Professor and Department Chair of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh
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Associate Professor, Monash University