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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- There's a new "subvariant" of the omicron variant that's been spreading across Europe and the U.S. Preliminary data shows it's more contagious than omicron. Scientist have named ...

Manal Mohammed is a senior lecturer of medical microbiology at the University of Westminster. Since the COVID variant Omicron emerged in late 2021, it has rapidly evolved into multiple subvariants.

New variants of SARS-CoV-2 have emerged throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, with the latest one being Omicron. We’re still ...

Thirteen of Omicron’s mutations should have hurt the variant’s chances of survival. Instead, they worked together to make it thrive. By Carl Zimmer As nurses and doctors struggle with a ...

Omicron and its growing family of subvariants has left Americans wondering whether they have enough immunity to protect against the ever-changing virus. Two subvariants — BA.4 And BA.5 — are spreading ...

When the omicron variant first emerged last November, many doctors, researchers and scientists hoped that the new strain — while more transmissible — would cause fewer deaths. Indeed, early research ...

The CDC reduced the isolation period from 10 days to five days. Omicron seems to be more transmissible than delta, but perhaps not as much as previously thought. Omicron exposure might help in the ...

Covid hospitalizations are surging, but a smaller proportion of cases is severe compared with previous waves. With staff shortages, some hospitals are still in crisis. By Emily Anthes and Azeen ...

There’s still time to “enhance our preparedness” with vaccinations, he said. While the new omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus has not yet been detected in the United States, it will "inevitably" ...

As the Omicron variant spreads across the globe and the US, where cases are doubling roughly every two days, the importance of identifying early signs of infection are more crucial than ever, ...