Now, we are keeping track of descriptors like alpha, beta and gamma, the variants of COVID ... vaccine is less effective against the delta and lambda variants; these findings were at odds with ...

was given the name of the first letter of the Greek alphabet - Alpha. Stock image. Picture by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images After the little-heard-of Beta and Gamma variants, it is now the Delta ...

The virus that causes COVID-19 has stopped worming its way through the Greek alphabet — for now. The alpha, beta ... lambda and mu, never achieved the CDC’s variant of concern classification ...

Like we have all just been waiting for the ball to drop, and it has, with the recommendations from the CDC on Tuesday related to increased protections needed with new evidence on the B.1.617.2 ...

Lambda has been identified by the WHO as a “variant of interest,” just under “variant of concern,” a designation that includes alpha, beta, gamma and delta variants.

The World Health Organization recently announced a new naming system for SARS-CoV-2 variants using the Greek alphabet. The new naming system ... Four of these variants of concern — Alpha, Beta, Delta ...

the SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern are the Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta, and the variants of interest are the Epsilon, Eta, Iota, Kappa and Lambda. The Delta variant makes up 83% of new COVID-19 ...

What are the SARS-CoV-2 variants besides delta? The four main variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, currently, are the alpha, beta, gamma and delta ... United States and the lambda variant first ...

and India variants have now been given the letters Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta according to the order of their detection. Other variants of interest continue down the alphabet. “While they have ...