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COVID: How worried should we be about the new AY.4.2 lineage of the coronavirus?
COVID: How worried should we be about the new AY.4.2 lineage of the coronavirus?

Just when you thought all the talk of new COVID variants was over, there’s news of yet another one: AY.4.2. But what is it, where did it come from, and should we be concerned?
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