Omicron carries scary mutations. That doesn’t mean they work well together.

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By BY APOORVA MANDAVILLI from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3lkMmIm
via IFTTT Coronavirus Omicron Variant, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Mutations can work together to make a virus more fearsome, but they can also cancel one another out. This phenomenon, called epistasis, is why scientists are reluctant to speculate on Omicron.

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