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Rather than having evolved in an immunocompromised person in South Africa as suspected, Omicron seems to have evolved in steps while circulating in West Africa during summer 2021 before exploding across the south that autumn.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add8737#ViralEvolution #Omicron #SarsCoV2 #Virology #WestAfrica #SouthAfrica #Immunocompromised #COVID19 #OriginOfCovid #ScienceMagazine #Phylogenetics #VirusEvolution #BA1 #VariantsOfSARSCoV2 #ViralGenetics #Epidemiology #InfectiousDiseaseEpidemiology