Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2: a quest to define the consequences of its high mutational load

Affiliations

• ¹ Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas en Retrovirus y Sida (INBIRS), Facultad de Medicina, Consejo de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. quarleri@fmed.uba.ar.
• ² Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.
• ³ Center for Geroscience and Healthy Brain Aging, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.
• ⁴ Research Health Scientist, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Oklahoma City VA Health Care System, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.
• ⁵ Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas en Retrovirus y Sida (INBIRS), Facultad de Medicina, Consejo de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.