The World Health Organization declared the recently discovered B.1.1.529 strain of the COVID-19 virus to be a variant of concern on November 26 and renamed it Omicron. The classification puts Omicron into the most-troubling category of COVID-19 variants, along with the globally dominant Delta...
"The concept is that we're looking for next generation vaccines," said Dr. John Brownstein, an epidemiologist and chief innovation officer at Boston Children's Hospital and an ABC News contributor. "Throughout the pandemic, we had the incredible scientific b...
A new COVID-19 strain has emerged that appears likely to stick around in the U.S. through the holiday season. SEE: Latest Coronavirus and Vaccine News JN.1, which is a close relative to BA.2.86, is the fastest growing variant in the U.S. According to estimates from the Cen...
Valni Haughton, Head of Occupational Health at Cathay Pacific Airways, shares information about the current outbreak of COVID-19 based on expert advice from the WHO, IATA and Hong Kong’s local health authority, and how Cathay Pacific is responding to the situation...
What Is Known About XBB.1.16? The subvariant is a close relative to XBB.1.5, which is the current dominant strain in the U.S. But the new strain is likely more transmissible than XBB.1.5 given its additional mutations. The World Health Organization this week u...
As of August 15, the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services hasremoved COVID-19 wastewater datafrom its website. In the week ending May 3, 2025, there were1,913 COVID-19 tests performed in Nebraska, with 88 positive results. This is a 4.6% positivity rate, a .4% increase ...
Mr Javid added that early indications show the new variant "may be more transmissible than the Delta variant, and current vaccines may be less effective against it", as well as the antibody treatment Ronapreve. But he said although "partial immun...
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they approached him to discuss a different plan. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, he hadn't seen game action for almost 18 months, and he had pitched sparingly in the minor leagues during his 2019 debut. They wanted to be cautious -- careful even. They wanted to...
The study could not tell if people had experienced ongoing symptoms for the full two years since a Covid-19 diagnosis: “That might be the case, it may not be the case,” Taquet said. “This data is only looking at the number of new diagnoses being made, not the persistence or the ...