A new study analyzing the immune response to COVID-19 in a Catalan cohort of health workers sheds light on an important ...

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.

Depending on the surface type, the time the Omicron variant of COVID-19 may stay on a surface varies. However, it appears to stay on surfaces longer than the other virus variants. As the coronavirus ...

Jessica was a writer on the Wellness team, with a focus on health technology, eye care, nutrition and finding new approaches to chronic health problems. Expertise Public health, new wellness ...

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 ...

Versions of Omicron are highly transmissible and less susceptible to vaccines, but seem to cause less severe illness and fewer deaths among those who are immunized. By Carl Zimmer Emily Anthes and ...

While some have mild symptoms with COVID-19, others can have severe symptoms, resulting in hospitalization and even death.

As omicron cases multiply around the world, scientists are racing to characterize the heavily mutated coronavirus variant to understand how it spreads, and gauge new risks during this wave of the ...

There's more mixed news about the power of vaccines to protect people against the omicron variant — this time about the Moderna vaccine. A preliminary study made public Wednesday studied blood samples ...