Archived - Deltacron variant of COVID (not being updated)

The news is reporting this new variant (Guardian, Sky), which combines mutations from omicron and delta.

PubMed today has only one item with that word, a piece from Nature, from February (so earlier than the news items) that has the title "the variant that wasn't".    A university in Cyprus had found the variant, but then reported that it was not a variant because their sample was contaminated.

PS: PubMed on 2nd May 2022 has three items with the word "deltacron", 2 with "deltamicron" (one is relevant), none with "deltakron" and none with "deltamikron")

But, the Guardian and Sky pieces postdate the Nature item, and are reporting that the Institut Pasteur has sequenced the genome, and that the WHO news briefing of 9th March reported that there had been cases in the Netherlands and Denmark.

So if there is nothing yet in PubMed about deltacron, what is there?

One thing there is not appears to be a report of the WHO news conference, on the WHO site.

WebMD reports the WHO conference (and links to YouTube).  WebMD reports that USA Today has seen a paper about to appear in medRxiv that reports cases in the United States, 

Deseret News (I have had news alerts from this, which is a  news source owned by the Mormons) has a report which links to a preprint in medRxiv, from authors in Marseille.

Ah, but, that preprint calls it Deltamicron...    The importance of synonyms, especially with new topics!

So, back to PubMed - which finds only a paper from 1976 in Russian....    at the moment.

Google finds some things for deltamicron, including an item in Medscape.  Google's link goes to Medscape's coronavirus site, but there is a news item.  Registration is needed to see the whole item, but without logging in I can see it seems to mention the Marseille preprint.

I have updated my PubMed strategies on my Omicron page  to search deltacron, deltamicron, and (in the more sensitive strategy, spellings with -k- in case).