Omicron, which emerged in late 2021, has since splintered into hundreds of subvariants — amounting to what's been described as a "variant soup" — and will likely keep splintering into more. "The virus has still got the capacity to evolve and it will evolve … there's no evolutionary dead-end," Professor Holmes said. "We'll definitely see more immune escape variants … but when, where and what they'll be is very hard to say." Splintering virus reflects 'immunologically complex' population While Omicron continues to dominate globally, the current spread of SARS-CoV-2 looks different depending on where you are. "We're seeing this complicated...