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IronLionZion

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3. There's a lot of confusion on DU

Reply to NH Ethylene (Reply #2)

Wed Jun 23, 2021, 04:29 PM

Jun 2021

where people think something is new when it was just a renamed variant that has been around a while. The numbers are hard to remember and the country of origin leads to discrimination.

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WHO SARS-CoV-2 variant naming scheme [View all] IronLionZion Jun 2021 OP

I thought lambda was what gave you Teh Gay. nt eppur_se_muova Jun 2021 #1

Thanks for this. NH Ethylene Jun 2021 #2

There's a lot of confusion on DU IronLionZion Jun 2021 #3

Agree. The naming switchover was done with modest fanfare. NH Ethylene Jun 2021 #4