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Why the nomenclature jump from delta to lambda? not kidding: were there uninteresting variants in alphabetical order between them? (i.e, what of epsilon, zet
by jjtheblunt 5y ago
Why the nomenclature jump from delta to lambda?
not kidding: were there uninteresting variants in alphabetical order between them? (i.e, what of epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, and kappa?)
- DSMan195276 5y agoThey all exist[1] to some degree, I couldn't tell you much about them though. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variants_of_SARS-CoV-2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variants_of_SARS-CoV-2
- mdp2021 5y agoThere are "variants of interest", "variants of concern" and "variants of high consequence", in order of possible impact. The first are labelled, the latter "make headlines".