> This particular variant that didn't exist until humans combined two variants into a new one? Nature created a very similar hybrid earlier: "Deltacron" was in

> This particular variant that didn't exist until humans combined two variants into a new one? Nature created a very similar hybrid earlier: "Deltacron" was in the news in March 2022. The gene that encodes the virus’s surface protein — known as spike — comes almost entirely from Omicron. The rest of the genome is Delta. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/science/deltacron-coronavirus-variant.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/science/deltacron-coronav... His team described three patients in France infected with a version of SARS-CoV-2 that combines the spike protein from an Omicron variant with the "body" of a Delta variant. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/variant-that-combines-delta-omicron-identified-dogs-sniff-out-virus-with-high-2022-03-09/ https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...