Beta variant

beta variant Beta Variant English Alternative forms en beta variant Beta Variant β variant β-variant Β variant Β-variant Proper noun (the) Beta variant The highly virulent B.1.351 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. July 19 2021 Emily Anthes The Beta Variant: What Scientists Know https://web.archive.org/web/20230611134520/http://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/health/beta-variant-covid-19.html Studies in Qatar, where the Beta variant once accounted for half of all infections, have found that two doses of the Pfizer vaccine are 72 to 75 percent effective at preventing infection with Beta, a lower degree of protection than the shots provide against other variants. en 17 August 2022 Prabhu S. Arunachalam; et al. Durable protection against the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant is induced by an adjuvanted subunit vaccine w:Science Translational Medicine 14 658 10.1126/scitranslmed.abq4130 The Beta variant was selected because it was the prevalent SARS-CoV-2 strain at the time. Thus, after a prolonged interval after immunization with RBD-β, we had planned to challenge these animals with the Beta variant to assess the durability of protection against this variant. en February 3 2023 Kathy Katella Omicron, Delta, Alpha, and More: What To Know About the Coronavirus Variants Yale Medicine https://web.archive.org/web/20230531152203/https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/covid-19-variants-of-concern-omicron South Africa stopped offering the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine (which is not available in the U.S.) early in 2021 after clinical trials showed it did not provide strong protection against mild and moderate disease from the Beta variant. Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson also reported less protection against Beta. Synonyms en beta Beta South African variant Coordinate terms en Alpha variant Gamma variant Delta variant Epsilon variant Zeta variant Eta variant Theta variant Iota variant Kappa variant Lambda variant Mu variant Omicron variant Omega variant Translations strain of the COVID-19 virus Chinese: Mandarin: cmn β變體 Finnish: fi beetamuunnos French: fr variant bêta m German: de Beta-Variante f Greek: el βήτα παραλλαγή Japanese: ja ベータ株 beta kabu Korean: ko 베타 변이 Portuguese: pt variante beta f Romanian: ro Russian: ru Spanish: es variante beta f Translingual: mul B.1.351 Further reading SARS-CoV-2 Beta variant en Types of coronaviruses COVID-19