As the summer surge of COVID-19 crests, many people are weighing whether they need to get booster shots now to protect against the disease (SN: 7/19/24). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved ...

LOS ANGELES COUNTY (CNS) -- Los Angeles County confirmed two more cases of the omicron variant of COVID-19 on Friday, including one that was locally acquired, while health officials again stressed ...

With the latest COVID-19 variant leading to record numbers of cases worldwide, a top infectious disease expert says the virus is undergoing a major shift. Dr. Robert Redfield, the former director of ...

La nueva variante se deriva de la cepa de ómicron que fue detectada inicialmente a finales de 2021. El condado de Dallas registró un repunte de infecciones de covid-19 este verano, y la semana pasada ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Netherlands confirmed 13 cases of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus on Sunday and Australia found two as the countries half a world apart became the latest ...

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With the rise of omicron came the fall of long-lasting protection from reinfection with the pandemic coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, according to a study published in Nature. Using population-wide data from ...

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"Cicada" is trending, but not because it's the season for the noisy insects to appear. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization are both monitoring a COVID-19 ...

The dominant variant of the coronavirus has proved to be not only staggeringly infectious, but an evolutionary marvel. By Carl Zimmer By November 2021, nearly two years after the coronavirus emerged ...