As COVID-19 activity remains high in the United States, a new variant called XEC has emerged and is spreading rapidly in ...

Xec 'is a mix' of two different variants: 'KS.1.1 (a so-called FLiRT variant) and KP.3.3 (FLuQE variant)', lists Honey, ...

Renowned trauma care systems and policy expert, who has led the world's first and largest school of public health since 2017, ...

First used in the 1940s to monitor for polio, wastewater surveillance proved such a powerful disease monitoring tool that the ...

Researchers found that the hazard ratio for death or PASC-U09.9 was 0.79 and the hazard ratio for death or PASC-N3C was 0.85 in the N3C database.

Upon authorization by the European Commission, the Omicron KP.2-adapted COVID-19 vaccine will be available for individuals 6 months of age and ...

In patients with chronic liver disease, including PBC, ursodeoxycholic acid shows promise as an adjunctive therapy for COVID-19 infection.

The theory that COVID-19 originated from a human interacting with an infected animal at a local market in late 2019 is backed by "very strong evidence." In January of 2020, 800 samples of stalls and ...

The following is a summary of “Real-time estimation of immunological responses against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants in the UK: a mathematical modelling study,” published in the September 2024 issue of ...

If Drs. Vinay Prasad and Tracy Hoeg want to prove they actually care about routine vaccines, they can do what the should have ...

A new genetic analysis looks at species of animals present at the Wuhan market that may have spread COVID-19 to people.

Every once in a while, a City & State loser entry just writes itself. Dr. Jay Varma, former senior adviser for public health ...