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Prof Paul Hunter, from the University of East Anglia, said: "The implications of this paper are that Omicron will be able to overcome natural and probably vaccine-induced immunity to a significant ...

SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineage BA.2.86 has over 30 mutations compared to the parental BA.2 lineage. Here Bdeir and colleagues apply reverse mutational scanning to determine which among these mutations ...

That was when the Omicron variant took off and became dominant ... Professor Paul Hunter, lead author of the paper and infectious disease specialist at the University of East Anglia, told ...