Omicron has become the dominant strain in the ... of the US testing system has mounted in recent weeks, as at-home test kits are expensive and hard to find. The US lags behind other countries ...

For those wanting the home test kit, free rapid antigen tests will continue to be available through local public health units ...

The government previously offered free test kits last winter ... was a lesson officials learned from the original surge of the Omicron variant, which led to shortages of kits.

Last week, the FDA granted emergency use authorization (EUA) for updated mRNA COVID-19 vaccines (2024-2025 formula) to ...

Rapid Covid home tests are more likely to give a false negative with the heavily-mutated Omicron variant compared ... more accurate PCR tests, and home kits in extremely short supply.

New as well as tried and true vaccines are available to target COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.

(That’s when they bother to test at all.) But for all their convenience ... were expected to have reduced performance against Omicron or its subvariants. (All of the variants that have emerged ...

Omicron has proved to be not only staggeringly ... Americans will be able to get free virus test kits mailed to their homes, starting in late September, at COVIDtests.gov Oral antivirals are ...

Over-the-counter test kits typically have a sticker on the box ... It was first believed that rapid tests might not be very good at detecting Omicron, a coronavirus variant that's — along ...

A summer wave of cases locally and across the country may be on the decline and a vaccine targeting the latest variants is ...

Flu season approaches and there's a new COVID variant. The time to act is now, or soon, according to the two largest local ...

The strain is a subvariant of Omicron, and was found in Germany this June, with other cases reported in Denmark, U.S. and U.K. Janis Ramsay is an online editor with Metroland. Reach her at ...