NEW YORK -- This holiday season held promise for Americans, many of whom spent Christmas 2020 in quarantine or away from loved ones due to a nasty winter COVID-19 surge. Yet in the last week or so, ...

Feb. 19—Despite the county's Public Health Services Department reporting omicron was first confirmed in Kern on Jan. 4, the department said it knew omicron was "likely" present in December through ...

Abbott Labs ABT handily beat wall street estimates with Q4 sales of $11.4 billion beating the forecast of $10.7 billion, but then provided weak 2022 guidance on COVID-19 testing, citing an uncertain ...

In a recent study published in the journal Cell, researchers investigated the infectivity, fusogenicity, and immune evasive potential of two novel Omicron subvariants – BA.2.86 and FLip. They used ...

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The White House said on Tuesday it will ensure Americans continue to have easy access to COVID-19 vaccines, treatments and testing to contain the fast-spreading Omicron BA.5 subvariant that now makes ...

Another vaccine trial is underway— this time for an omicron-specific vaccine dose. “The virus can evolve very rapidly and I think the RNA approach is probably the only vaccine approach that can adapt ...

State leaders and health experts are weighing a counterintuitive school Covid strategy: Less testing and contact tracing. Utah’s legislature suspended school testing requirements this month after high ...

As the highly transmissible omicron variant impacts Eastern Washington and North Idaho, health care professionals are looking to Western Washington and other parts of the country to know what to ...

The company announced Wednesday that the first participant had received a dose. Earlier this week, competitor Pfizer began a similar study of its own reformulated shots. A sign marks an entrance to a ...

A number of Illinois-based COVID testing companies are now under investigation by state authorities. Meanwhile, public health experts are monitoring a new subvariant of omicron, but how worried should ...