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Letter: Could we beat omicron variant at its own game?

Published 29 December 2021

From William Hughes-Games, Waipara, New Zealand

When a new coronavirus variant arrives and is highly infectious, it seems to wipe out older varieties (11 December 2021, p 7). Why couldn’t we engineer a variety that is very transmissible but not deadly? Perhaps this would be better than vaccination.

Issue no. 3367 published 1 January 2022

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