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A more seasonal pattern to Covid waves could be emerging | James Wood for the Conversation
Evidence suggests the latest outbreak will peak by Christmas and the virus may then evolve more slowly, like influenza, and cause fewer infections
Australia is now midway into its fourth wave of Covid in the Omicron era, driven by a rich soup of Omicron descendants. Unlike previous waves, where a single new variant of SARS-CoV-2 variant such as BA.2 or BA.5 was responsible, we have had an explosion of new variants such as XBB.1, BQ.1.1 and BR.2.1.
However, despite this apparent diversity, these new variants all follow a similar script, where the same set of changes have evolved independently across multiple variants. This is called convergent evolution.
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