[Ads-l] Scrabble variants (Name for recent variants of Covid-19)

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Website: Houston Chronicle
Article title: Peter Hotez says new 'Scrabble variants' like BQ.1.1
could bring another winter COVID wave to Texas
Article author: Andrew Dansby
Date on website: Oct. 17, 2022
Accessed houstonchronicle.com on Oct 25, 2022

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/lifestyle/renew-houston/health/article/COVID-Q-A-Peter-Hotez-on-new-Scrabble-variants-17514891.php

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We’ve been repeating a pattern. Now with these new omicron subvariants
- I call them the Scrabble variants, because they’re these high-valued
Scrabble letters like Q and X and B. We’re seeing cases go up again.
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Website: cnbc.com
Article title: How concerned should you be about Covid-19 ‘Scrabble’
variants? Here’s what we know so far
Article author: Renée Onque
Date on website: Oct 25 2022
Accessed cnbc.com on Oct 25, 2022

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/25/covid-19-scrabble-variants-heres-what-you-need-to-know.html

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The new variants were coined the “Scrabble” variants by Peter Hotez,
co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s
Hospital, during an interview with the Houston Chronicle.
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