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Euro Pound (EUR/GBP) Exchange Rate Slides on Omicron Study Data The Euro Pound exchange rate has plunged today as rising optimism that the Omicron variant
Omicron may have lower risk of hospitalisation compared to Delta, study reveals - A new study shows that the risk of hospitalisation may be lower when it comes to Omicron, as compared to the Delta variant.
Despite having three mutations that were predicted to favour the spike cleavage, the researchers found the Omicron spike protein to be less efficient than the Delta spike at cleaving the ACE2 receptor and entering the lung cells.
Study finds that novel Omicron variant replicates faster than the original SARS-CoV-2 virus and Delta variant in the human bronchus. At 24-hours after infection, the Omicron variant replicated around 70 times higher than the Delta variant and the original SARS-CoV-2 virus.
A full course of Pfizer's treatment is three pills taken twice daily for five days. Two of the pills are an experimental antiviral called nirmatrelvir, the third pill is an existing HIV drug called ritonavir.