What Omicron Does, and How It Does It
Other Quantitative Biology
2021-12-10 v1
Abstract
Improvement of protein function by evolution (natural selection) is expected on general grounds, but even with the modern database positive proof has remained a difficult problem for theory. Here we extend our recent analysis of the evolution of CoV-1 to much more contagious CoV-2, to Omicron, which appears to be qualitatively different from other recent strains like Delta. Overall the synchronized dynamics of Omicron is more elaborate than CoV-2 or its variants like Delta. The surprising result is that while Omicron could be more contagious than even Delta, it is probably much less dangerous
Cite
@article{arxiv.2112.04915,
title = {What Omicron Does, and How It Does It},
author = {J. C. Phillips},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.04915},
year = {2021}
}
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10 pages, 5 figures