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Pfizer and BioNTech start clinical trials of the vaccine against Omicron

Pfizer and BioNTech have announced the start of clinical trials of an updated version of the vaccine against the omicron…

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WHO: The Omicron variant of coronavirus has been detected in 110 countries

The omicron variant of the COVID-19 coronavirus has now been detected in 110 countries and continues to spread exponentially, with…

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Lufthansa to cut 33,000 flights from its winter schedule amid spread of Omicron

Lufthansa plans to cut 33,000 flights from its winter schedule due to the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant and…

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Omicron named second most contagious virus on the planet

Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Claudia Hoyen, co-director of infection control for University Hospitals, said the Omicron strain…

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How effective are vaccines against Omicron? An epidemiologist answers 6 questions

The pandemic has brought many tricky terms and ideas from epidemiology into everyone’s lives. Two particularly complicated concepts are vaccine…

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