What the Data on Coronavirus Omicron Actually Shows

A lot of speculation about the new variant is not super helpful

F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE
Elemental
Published in
6 min readNov 29, 2021

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Thirty thousand nucleotide bases.

Just 30,000 letters of the alphabet of life are enough to create the entire SARS-CoV-2 virus, provided those letters find the machinery present in all of our cells to do the hard work. Those letters get copied…

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F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE
Elemental

Medicine, science, statistics. Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Yale. New book “How Medicine Works and When it Doesn’t” available now.