This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A highly mutated COVID-19 strain is circulating in California — raising concerns that disease activity could rise ...

A new variant of the virus that causes COVID is spreading in the U.S. The “Cicada” variant, officially known as BA.3.2, was first detected in South Africa in November 2024. But infection rates in the ...

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A highly mutated COVID-19 strain is circulating in California — raising concerns that disease activity could rise heading into the summer. The emergence of the BA.3.2 strain, nicknamed "cicada," comes ...

Blumenthal and Morone are the co-authors of “Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science” (Yale University Press). Six years after the Covid shutdown of March 2020, the nation is ...

The timing of the spread of the subvariant, nicknamed "Cicada," underscores that COVID has lately morphed into more of a summer disease in California. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) A highly ...

"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 ...