Omicron and its growing family of subvariants has left Americans wondering whether they have enough immunity to protect against the ever-changing virus. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

Children who have had COVID-19 aren't protected against the Omicron variant, but vaccination does cut their chances of infection, a new study shows. "I hear parents say, 'Oh, my kid had COVID last ...

LSU Health Shreveport has confirmed a new variant of COVID in Northwest Louisiana. This new variant BA.2.12.1 is a sub lineage of the Omicron variant and is making up 20% of the samples collected.

The omicron subvariant known as BA.5 was first detected in South Africa in February 2022 and spread rapidly throughout the world. As of the second week of July 2022, BA.5 constituted nearly 80% of ...

Moderna shared this week that it has a new booster vaccine candidate that’s specifically targeted at Omicron variants of COVID-19. Moderna’s new Omicron booster contains Moderna’s original vaccine ...

An unclear tweet from New York City health officials was meant to caution residents that the latest omicron subvariant, XBB.1.5, might be more likely than previous variants to infect vaccinated or ...

Research drawing on the national Overcoming COVID-19 study, led by Boston Children's Hospital, and the hospital's own Taking On COVID-19 Together Group provides evidence that children who previously ...

When the omicron variant first emerged last November, many doctors, researchers and scientists hoped that the new strain — while more transmissible — would cause fewer deaths. Subscribe to read this ...

Variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus are named after letters of the Greek alphabet and there is no evidence that the Omicron variant is a cryptic name that means “non-existing”, as claimed in a meme being ...

The latest variant, or sublineage, of SARS-CoV-2 to emerge on the scene, BA.2.86, has public health experts on alert as COVID-19 hospitalizations begin to rise and the new variant makes its way across ...