A COVID-19 variant that is being watched closely by public health organizations around the world has reached Ohio. Variant BA.2.86 was detected in one COVID-19 case in Lorain County, the Ohio ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients hospitalized with omicron who required ICU admission were less likely to develop AKI. There was no ...

Even as the omicron COVID-19 variant continues to sweep the globe, scientists are now monitoring a new mutation of omicron, dubbed BA.2. The World Health Organization maintains that BA.2 is not a ...

Summer is winding down, but Ohio's COVID-19 cases aren't. The state's weekly average jumped from around 5,000 at the beginning of August to over 7,000 this past week, driven primarily by the KP.3.1.1 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Across the nation, the much anticipated Omicron variant is rapidly increasing. Data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports the variant makes up around ...

A new variant now makes up a plurality of COVID-19 cases in the United States, federal data shows. EG.5, an offshoot of the omicron variant and descendant of the XBB strain, has been circulating in ...

A scanning-electron-microscope image of SARS-CoV-2 around cells cultured in a lab Source: Credit: NIAID-RML Omicron could go one way or another—less bad or worse than Delta—though it does appear to be ...

The Delta variant of Covid has been a major story for some time now, but on Friday World Health Organization announced the name for a new, worrying variant: Omicron. President Joe Biden has been ...

The race is on for new treatments that stand up to omicron's explosive spread. With omicron's explosive spread threatening to outpace current COVID-19 treatments, the race is on to find new options ...