In recent months, our lives have been dominated by the delta and omicron variants, but now, there might be another one lurking — temporarily named IHU. But how do variants get classified as “variants of concern”? Host Carol Hills speaks with Emma Hodcroft, an epidemiologist at the University of Bern in Switzerland.
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