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The omicron variant is likely to have picked up genetic material from another virus that causes the common cold in humans, according to a new preliminary study, prompting one of its authors to suggest omicron could have greater transmissibility but lower virulence than other variants of the coronavirus. Lock & Lock Easy Essentials Pantry Rectangular 16.5-Cup Food Storage Container, Multicolor Ad Kohl's Lock & Lock Easy Essentials Pantry Rectangular 16.5-Cup Food Storage Container, Multicolor Researchers from Nference, a Cambridge, Mass.-based firm that analyzes biomedical information, sequenced omicron and found a snippet of genetic code that is also present in a...

COVID is an abbreviation for the acronym COVID In India, 19 diseases and deaths have occurred at an unprecedented rate, with no end in sight to the epidemic and a top analyst predicting that the coming weeks will be "horrible" in the world of nearly 1.4 billion people. The official number of coronavirus cases in India reached 20 million on Tuesday, almost doubling in the previous three months, while deaths officially surpassed 220,000. As shocking as those statistics are, the real figures are thought to be much larger, with the undercount reflecting the health-care system's problems. People dying outside overcrowded...