The Omicron booster will protect against BA.5 and BA.4 as well as the original coronavirus strain. (Getty Images) COVID-19 booster shots that target the highly contagious Omicron variant — which ...

The Omicron family of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, has some new menacing members. At the end of the week ending October 29, data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

BA.5, part of the Omicron family, is the latest coronavirus variant to cause widespread waves of infection globally. According to the World Health Organization's most recent report, it was behind 52% ...

Let’s clear up one misconception. Viruses aren’t like deodorant on your armpit or a fart in a room. They don’t necessarily automatically get weaker over time. In fact, often it’s quite the opposite.

Omicron is mutating in giant leaps, with scientists racing to keep up. Its diversity is challenging vaccine efficacy and complicating treatment. But this fall, broad spectrum bivalent vaccines may ...

A new omicron variant is quickly spreading across the U.S. just in time for the New Year. The strain, known as XBB.1.5, accounts right now for almost 41% of confirmed COVID-19 cases nationwide, ...

For more than two years, Cathy Baron and Sara Alicia Costa managed to duck the coronavirus. But despite their being fully vaccinated and boosted, the Omicron variant finally caught them. Baron is an ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A new University at Buffalo study conducted at John R. Oishei Children’s Hospital is one of the first to reveal that there were fewer cases of multi-system inflammatory syndrome in ...

A new omicron coronavirus subvariant dubbed XBB.1.5 now accounts for an estimated 40.5 percent of all US COVID-19 cases amid a winter wave that is driving up hospitalizations, particularly in places ...