Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) of SARS-CoV-2: Mutation, infectivity, transmission, and vaccine resistance

Two-step strategy for the identification of SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern 202012/01 and other variants with spike deletion H69–V70, France, August to December 2020

(2021) Antonin Bal et al.   Eurosurveillance

Detection of SARS-CoV-2 and Its Mutated Variants via CRISPR-Cas13-Based Transcription Amplification

(2021) Yuxi Wang et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Detecting SARS-CoV-2 variants with SNP genotyping

(2021) Helen Harper et al.   PLoS One

No difference in risk of hospitalization between reported cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant and Alpha variant in Norway

(2021) Lamprini Veneti et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Daily briefing: Omicron coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert

(2021) Flora Graham   NATURE

Beyond Omicron: what’s next for COVID’s viral evolution

(2021) Ewen Callaway   NATURE

Daily briefing: Omicron was already spreading in Europe

(2021) Flora Graham   NATURE

Omicron likely to weaken COVID vaccine protection

(2021) Ewen Callaway   NATURE

How bad is Omicron? Some clues are emerging

(2021) Kai Kupferschmidt et al.   SCIENCE

Track Omicron’s spread with molecular data

(2021) Lesley Scott et al.   SCIENCE

Where did ‘weird’ Omicron come from?

(2021) Kai Kupferschmidt   SCIENCE

Fear can be more harmful than the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in controlling the corona virus disease 2019 epidemic

(2020) Shi-Yan Ren et al.   World Journal of Clinical Cases

A serological assay to detect SARS-CoV-2 seroconversion in humans

(2020) Fatima Amanat et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

Stability and infectivity of coronaviruses in inanimate environments

(2020) Shi-Yan Ren et al.   World Journal of Clinical Cases