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The five things experts are watching as omicron surges

Omicron is proving to be a “very slippery” variant, confounding the world’s best medical and epidemiological experts.

Tom Burton

“Omicron is arguably one of the most different variants that we have isolated and looked at over 2021,” says Associate Professor Stuart Turville from the Kirby Institute, the first Australian lab that has reviewed real-world samples from NSW cases.

Omicron negative stain images created at the Doherty Institute.  Dr Jason A. Roberts, Doherty Institute

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Tom Burton was government editor at The Australian Financial Review.

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