So we\u2019re at \u201cDelta\u201d now (Spring 2021) are you ready for \u201cEpsilon\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the WHO\u2019s newest naming convention for COVID Variants of Interest (VOI) and Varients of Concern (VOC) and something you don\u2019t hear too much about, Variant of High Consequence <\/a> (VOHC) we\u2019re going to hear a lot more Greek letter names in the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is the current \u201cdance card\u201d for what is out there: SARS-CoV-2 Variant Classifications and Definitions<\/a> or https:\/\/www.who.int\/en\/activities\/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-variants\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n While VOCs are getting most of the attention and the alpha, beta, gamma and delta names VOIs are also using up some of the Greek letters like ets, iota, kappa and lambda (hey, what happened to theta?). Only 26 names and we\u2019re burning through them pretty fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As a result, we\u2019re likely to become more familiar with the Greek alphabet, so here you go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n So we\u2019re at \u201cDelta\u201d now (Spring 2021) are you ready for \u201cEpsilon\u201d? With the WHO\u2019s newest naming convention for COVID Variants of Interest (VOI) and Varients of Concern (VOC) and something you don\u2019t hear too much about, Variant of High Consequence (VOHC) we\u2019re going to hear a lot more Greek letter names in the media. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grab-bag"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3513,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions\/3513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Name<\/strong><\/td> Character<\/strong><\/td> Pronunciation<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> alpha<\/td> \u03b1<\/td> AL-phuh<\/td><\/tr> beta<\/td> \u03b2<\/td> BAY-tuh<\/td><\/tr> gamma<\/td> \u03b3<\/td> GAMM-muh<\/td><\/tr> delta<\/td> \u03b4<\/td> DELL-tuh<\/td><\/tr> epsilon<\/td> \u03b5<\/td> EPP-sih-lonn<\/td><\/tr> zeta<\/td> \u03b6<\/td> ZAY-tuh<\/td><\/tr> eta<\/td> \u03b7<\/td> AY-tuh<\/td><\/tr> theta<\/td> \u03b8<\/td> THAY-tuh<\/td><\/tr> iota<\/td> \u03b9<\/td> ee-OH-tuh<\/td><\/tr> kappa<\/td> \u03ba<\/td> CAPP-uh r<\/td><\/tr> lambda<\/td> \u03bb<\/td> LAMM-duh
(What animal is that?
It’s a “LAMB — duh”!!)<\/td><\/tr>mu<\/td> \u03bc<\/td> myoo<\/td><\/tr> nu<\/td> \u03bd<\/td> noo<\/td><\/tr> xi<\/td> \u03be<\/td> ksee<\/td><\/tr> omicron<\/td> \u03bf<\/td> OH-mih-kronn<\/td><\/tr> pi<\/td> \u03c0<\/td> piy (Like apple “pie”.)<\/td><\/tr> rho<\/td> \u03c1<\/td> roh (Like “row, row,
row your boat”.)<\/td><\/tr>(final) sigma<\/td> \u03c2<\/td> SIGG-muh<\/td><\/tr> sigma<\/td> \u03c3<\/td> SIGG-muh<\/td><\/tr> tau<\/td> \u03c4<\/td> tow (like the first syllable of “towel”)<\/td><\/tr> upsilon<\/td> \u03c5<\/td> OOPS-ih-lonn<\/td><\/tr> phi<\/td> \u03c6<\/td> fiy (Like “fee, fie,
fo, fum”)<\/td><\/tr>chi<\/td> \u03c7<\/td> kiy<\/td><\/tr> psi<\/td> \u03c8<\/td> psiy<\/td><\/tr> omega<\/td> \u03c9<\/td> oh-MAY-guh<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"