U.S. health officials are on high alert and looking for any cases of the new omicron variant. Questions are also being raised if this new variant will overtake delta. Dr. Otto Yang, a leading ...

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Preliminary data out of South Africa is giving the world insight into how strong omicron really is. The South African Medical Research Council just reported this variant may cause ...

A blue gloved hand in the lab holding tubes of blood identified with the label COVID-19 New Variant. The COVID-19 pandemic was the third leading cause of death globally in 2020 and the second in 2021, ...

New data from South Africa suggests the omicron COVID-19 variant may cause less severe infections than delta, though more research is needed to confirm this finding. In a Dec. 4 report, the South ...

Cases spanned both major variant periods, with 6,120 during Delta and 13,799 during Omicron. Even after adjusting for comorbid conditions, vaccination remained associated with a lower risk of ...

The new Omicron variant might prompt a return to stricter Covid-19 measures if not enough people get vaccinated or boosted, health experts say. The new Omicron variant might prompt a return to ...

But Dr. Rochelle Walensky said the delta variant remains the chief concern. With the omicron variant now detected in at least 16 states in the U.S., Centers for Disease Control Director Dr. Rochelle ...

In just the past two weeks, many of us are finding out about so many people who have contracted COVID-19. Dr. David Hamer, an infectious disease attending physician at Boston Medical Center, says ...

The COVID-19 pandemic was the third leading cause of death globally in 2020 and the second in 2021, according to a recent World Health Organization report. The almost 13 million lives lost during ...