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...
A new COVID-19 variant, HV.1, has become the most prevalent strain in the United States, accounting for about a quarter of new cases as of late October. HV.1 is a subvariant of omicron and is closely related to the second most common variant, EG.5. While HV.1 is not believed to...
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...
The best thing most people can do to protect themselves is to be vaccinated and boosted. In particular, those who are at high risk, as well as those who have not had a booster shot or a Covid infection in the last four to six months, should make a plan to get a shot, Dr. Yang ...
Does the new strain sweeping the globe mean COVID will become ever morecontagious? By Charles Schmidt on April 4, 2022 目前为止我们对 Omicron BA.2 变种的了解(第二部分) 席卷全球的新病毒株是否意味着 新冠病毒将变得更...
Doctors studyingOmicron's spreadaround the world have found new clues to the pattern of symptoms caused by the highly-mutatedCOVID-19variant, which a growing number of reports suggest might show up differently and faster compared to the Delta variant it is now displacing. ...
The health secretary has said the government is still following Plan A for managing COVID-19 through the winter. But he has warned that "if we need to go further, we will". On 3 December, Conservative Party chairman Oliver Dowdentold Sk...
COVID-19 in Nebraska 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 rat...
There’s Already Another New Dominant Covid Strain. Here’s What to Know. Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations have steadily ticked up in the United States over the past couple months. This is due, at least in part, to half a dozen subvariants that seem to be better at immune evasion ...
East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The new, or ‘novel’ coronavirus is a previously unidentified strain of coronavirus, which is responsible for the outbreak that began in Wuhan, China in December 2019 – and has been na...