The UK variant, which emerged in December, was given the name of the first letter of the Greek alphabet - Alpha. After the little-heard-of Beta and Gamma variants, it is now the Delta variant that ...

“Unvaccinated health care workers appeared to have less protection against the delta and beta variants compared with alpha about a year after they recovered from mild COVID-19.

The World Health Organization recently announced a new naming system for SARS-CoV-2 variants using the Greek alphabet. The new naming system is aimed at preventing people from referring to the ...

From Alpha, Beta, Gamma to Delta: What we know of coronavirus mutations so far A succession of more-transmissible variants has emerged over the past year, each harboring a constellation of mutations ...

A German study on rapid antigen tests — which are faster, cheaper and more accessible but less sensitive — found comparable performance in detecting the alpha, beta and wild-type variants.

Get out the Greek alphabet for the rest of 2020: Storms Alpha and Beta have formed. Before them, Wilfred was the earliest "W" storm on record.

Alpha, Beta Sigma: Understanding the Greeks No, I’m not referring to some new fraternity here, dedicated to the promotion of enlightenment, upliftment and/or collective drunkenness.

2025 marked the birth of the new generation — Gen Beta. Mark McCrindle, whose research firm coined Gen Alpha, says the name has no inherent meaning.

or the second time in history, the National Hurricane Center has run out of names for tropical systems in the Atlantic basin.

Meteorologists were forced to break out the Greek alphabet Friday to name Atlantic storms for only the second time ever after the 2020 hurricane season blew through their usual list, ending on ...

Greek Alphabet Greek Alphabet Α Alpha (al-fah) Β Beta (bay-tah) Γ Gamma (gam-ah) Δ Delta (del-tah) Ε Epsilon (ep-si-lon) Ζ Zeta (zay-tah) Η Eta (ay-tah) Θ Theta (thay-tah) Ι Iota (eye-o-tah) Κ Kappa ...

Wilfred officially formed about an hour before Alpha. That led the hurricane center to tweet, “get out the Greek alphabet” for the rest of 2020.