New strains of Omicron are becoming increasingly more transmissible and evasive, with the ability to dodge immunity from prior vaccination and infection. Using the term “Omicron” to describe them just isn’t cutting it anymore, Dr. Ryan Gregory, a biology professor at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, recently told Fortune. He recently named rising COVID variant XBB.1.5 "Kraken."
https://www.firstpost.com/world/xbb-1-5-omicron-sub-variant-nicknamed-kraken-who-proposed-the-moniker-11941742.html
"根据彭博社的报告，以前治疗Covid的单克隆抗体对新变体无效。最近发表在《细胞》杂志上的一篇经过同行评审的文章中警告说，像XBB这样的亚变体对当前的Covid疫苗构成“严重威胁”。
XBB.1.5的绰号Kraken是由一位进化论教授在Twitter上提出的，目的是将新菌株的强度与神话中的海怪相匹配。"
New strains of Omicron are becoming increasingly more transmissible and evasive, with the ability to dodge immunity from prior vaccination and infection. Using the term “Omicron” to describe them just isn’t cutting it anymore, Dr. Ryan Gregory, a biology professor at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, recently told Fortune. He recently named rising COVID variant XBB.1.5 "Kraken."