Where did omicron come from? It may have been a single person.
The omicron variant of the coronavirus may have first developed in a single immunocompromised person.
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The omicron variant of the coronavirus may have first developed in a single immunocompromised person.
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Experts say the India variant probably will not cause great harm in the U.S. because of high vaccination rates, but they are watching it.
Fifteen months after the global pandemic officially began, it's still unclear how it originated – and a group of top American scientists is eager for answers. In a letter in the current issue of the journal Science, 18 infectious disease experts, immunologists and epidemiologists joined a global call for more information about the earliest days of the outbreak. There still isn't enough known, they said, to determine whether the coronavirus jumped directly from animals to people or whether it was released from a research laboratory in China. The lack of information, they said, feeds consp...