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...
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 ...
A day later, the first two cases of the new variant were confirmed in the UK, although contact tracing suggests they may have contracted it as far back as 19 November. South Africa variant is 'serious concern' How is it different from the other variants?
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...
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And while a fast-growing new COVID variant called JN.1 is estimated to be driving a large share of the current winter wave of infections, officials say there have so far been no signs of new or unusual symptoms caused by the virus. Here's the latest about what we know about this ...
There is real hope that with the exceedingly high rates of infection due to the highly infectious Omicron strain, that this wave and its strain on health care delivery will peak soon and then wane. Life hopefully will return to a new but manageable normal...