Omicron keeps finding new evolutionary tricks to outsmart our immunity

(NPR) Throughout the pandemic, the virus that causes COVID-19 has been evolving fast, blindsiding the world with one variant after another. But the World Health Organization hasn’t given a SARS-CoV-2 variant a Greek name in almost a year, a move that’s reserved for new variants that do or could have significant public health impacts, such as being more transmissible or causing more severe disease. That raises the question: Has the evolution of the virus finally started to ebb, possibly making it more predictable?