Covid: UK has ‘let our guard down’ as concern over new ‘Pirola’ variant grows
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-ba286-variant-vaccine-schools-latest-b2402427.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-ba286-variant-vaccine-schools-latest-b2402427.html
5 Comments
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk · 28 pts · 2y
lasagna@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y
Boats. Mash them. Boil them. Put immigrants in them.
lemonflavoured@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y
"Sink the boats, hang the paedos, simple as!"
RobotToaster@infosec.pub · 10 pts · 2y
Did we run out of greek letters for variants?
thehatfox@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Astronomical names of stars and planets have started to be used. I don't know if it's an official thing or just a media thing.
There was another variant a few days ago called Eris, which seemed to be tempting fate a bit considering Eris is also the Greek goddess of strife!
gnutrino@programming.dev · 5 pts · 2y
No, the WHO only assigns greek letters to Variants of Concern which this isn't (yet). It was named by a scientist on twitter after an asteroid that sounds close to pi and rho (which would be the next Greek letters if it becomes a VoC)