While the winter surge of COVID-19 infections fueled by the Omicron variant appears to be easing, authorities are watching the emergence of an Omicron “sub-lineage” that has spread rapidly in some ...
Fueled by a fast-growing new variant, COVID-19 infections are regaining ground just as summer travel peaks. New CDC transmission estimates released Friday, Aug. 1 show the effective reproduction ...
NEW YORK (WABC) -- New York State has identified the emergence of two sub linages of the COVID-19 omicron subvariant BA.2, named BA.2.12 and BA.2.12.1, that appear to have a 23% to 27% growth ...
A map has revealed how Covid-19 cases are rising nationwide, fueled by the Stratus variant, which is an emerging offshoot of the Omicron variant. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Two new sublineages of the Omicron coronavirus variant can dodge antibodies from earlier infection well enough to trigger a new wave, but are far less able to thrive in the ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday amended the emergency use authorizations of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines to authorize updated boosters to combat omicron ...
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), responsible for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is an enveloped virion containing a positive-sense single strand of ...
A recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences presented an antigenic map of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants constructed ...