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 ...

At the time, Lair was a master painter and plasterer who had been asked to help put up a series of framed photographs ...

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 ...

News Wrap: Pfizer says booster offers protection against omicron variant In our news wrap Wednesday, drug maker Pfizer says its double-dose vaccine — plus a booster — may offer significant ...

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

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 ...

However, the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant has led more diverse populations to experience symptoms following infection, with respiratory symptoms and fever more frequently observed ...

Australia has detected its first cases of the highly transmissible XEC "recombinant" variant — a mix of two previous Omicron variants called KS 1.1 and KP 3.3. Researchers have been working to ...

"CDC is monitoring the XEC variant," Rosa Norman, a CDC spokesperson told USA TODAY. "XEC is the proposed name of a recombinant, or hybrid, of the closely related Omicron lineages KS.1.1 and KP.3. ...

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 ...

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.