Best Treatment for COVID-19 Deltacron Variant?
On March 9, the World Health Organization (WHO) addressed a new variant of COVID-19, dubbed "deltacron," made from a combination of genes found in the highly transmissible delta and omicron COVID variants. In a media briefing , infectious-disease epidemiologist and WHO's COVID technical lead Maria Van Kerkhove, PhD, referred to the combination as a "recombinant." It's to be expected, she said, because of the "intense amount of circulation that we saw with both omicron and delta," and in some countries, at the same time. She did not outright call it "deltacron" by name. The 'deltacron' strain is a combination of the Delta and Omicron variants and is assumed to have come from a person infected with both. Dr Soumya Swaminathan, the chief scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO) tweeted, "We have known that recombinant events can occur, in humans or animals, with multiple circulating variants of #...