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      <title>Coronavirus FAQ: Help me with omicron vocab. What&apos;s immune evasion? Epistasis?</title>
      <description>The emergence of this new variant of concern has brought a new vocabulary into daily news reports. We asked experts to help define the terms you&apos;re being bombarded with.</description>
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