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What is 'stealth omicron'?
Some virologists are already considering stealth omicron a variant of concern. Should we be worried?
COVID-19 vaccines and the 'nocebo' effect
What if, instead of causing "more side effects" than reported, COVID-19 vaccines actually caused fewer?
Your omicron questions answered
Is COVID causing diabetes in kids? Can omicron infect you outside now? And are 10% of people really infectious 10 days later?
Omicron is peaking
Around the world, the data's clear: Omicron's rise (and fall) follow a very predictable path.
Weekly roundup — When (almost) everyone has omicron
Take a look around — because this is the wildest part of the pandemic anyone's ever seen. And we've started to normalize a few things we shouldn't.
Letting omicron spread is a deadly risk
Alpha, beta, delta — they were all more severe than the original. So why, after omicron, should the next variant be different?
Do rapid (antigen) tests work for omicron?
Yes. They do. But since there's a chance they're less sensitive, how many tests do you need before you can say it's definitely COVID — or just a common cold?
Weekly roundup — Inside omicron
Hospitals, animals and miniature human organoids are showing us how omicron causes disease. And the news is mostly good.
Weekly roundup - The omicron 'wall'
The omicron numbers are already awful. Yet there's a case for cautious optimism based on what we've seen so far.