Despite its recent discovery in South Africa, Dutch health officials announced that a few cases of the Omicron variant have been circulating in the Netherlands for nearly two weeks.
As scientists scramble to establish a timeline, they’re also trying to learn more about the variant itself.
How long will it take scientists to determine some certainties about Omicron – its transmissibility, its severity, and most of all, the vaccines’ effectiveness against it?
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