Before the Omicron variant swept through the Twin Cities, local music venues opened their doors to winter residencies, allowing local musicians to step back onto the stages that have been desolate for ...

A new COVID variant, XEC, has arrived just before fall. The new variant has sprouted from the omicron variant that was first ...

After a year, omicron still driving COVID surges amid holiday season The omicron variant is driving U.S. COVID-19 case counts higher in many places just in time for the holiday season.

The XEC COVID-19 variant is poised to become the dominant variant worldwide. Now is a good time to get an updated COVID ...

Behind it is the previous top variant, HV.1, which now only makes up 14.8% of cases across the country. COVID Is Still With Us (If you’re losing track of all these subvariants of the omicron variant ...

The KP.3.1.1 variant, part of the Omicron family, has been the strain dominating the country and was the only major variant increasing in proportion nationally in August. The Nowcast data tracker ...

What is the omicron variant? First identified in Botswana and South Africa in November 2021, the omicron variant surged around the world. Scientists first recognized omicron thanks to its ...

English gig venues have been open without social distancing since July Fears about the Omicron variant - and a desire to stay safe before Christmas - have led to a sharp decline in bookings and ...

evolving from the original wild-type strains to the highly transmissible Omicron variant. Nirmatrelvir-ritonavir effectively lowers hospitalization rates and long COVID symptoms in non ...

The strain has now been detected in at least 29 countries and 24 US states. XEC, a sublineage of the omicron variant, was first reported in Berlin, Germany, in June and is now spreading “quite ...

Japan from mid-October plans to administer a new type of vaccine in booster shots designed to protect people from the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus, the health ministry said. The ...

“XEC is definitely taking charge,” Dr Topol said. XEC, a sublineage of the omicron variant, was first reported in Berlin, Germany, in June and is now spreading “quite rapidly” across ...