In quickly moving scientific developments over the past 24 hours, three separate labs that tested the Omicron (B.1.1.529) COVID-19 variant against vaccines reported significant immune escape based on ...

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Quantum mechanical modeling allowed the team to develop an initial set of predictions about the role of mutations on infectivity and immune response evasion of Omicron and other SARS-CoV-2 variants ...

The complex and ever-evolving immunity landscape associated with SARS-CoV-2, combined with immune evasion by omicron ...

Another variant, more cases, different symptoms. After several particularly intense summer waves, Covid continues to mutate, ...

"Recent research shows that JN.1 is very efficient at immune evasion (even more so than other Omicron variants), resulting in an increased reproductive number." They added: "Vaccination is still ...

While vaccine manufacturers are currently racing to make boosters based on Omicron sub-variant sequences ... the key mutations from other SARS-CoV-2 variants with potential immune evasion ability, we ...

The outcome was Omicron variant reinfection ... they may not fully prevent immune evasion. The continuous evolution of COVID-19 infections means that the long-term efficacy of hybrid immunity is still ...