There is a new coronavirus variant in town. KP.2, a member of the so-called FliRT variants, nicknamed after their mutations, ...

ongoing evolution of COVID-19 variants and the willingness of our society to learn—and adhere to—the lessons of the pandemic will all impact the trajectory of COVID-19 in 2025. "Unless we see ...

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 just keeps doing what it does oh-so-well: it just keeps mutating and mutating and mutating, resulting in more and more variants. Leading the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not confirmed whether there are any unique symptoms from the XEC variant.

As part of National Minority Donor Awareness Month, Mayo Clinic experts ...

The symptoms caused by the dominant variants circulating, XEC and KP.3.1.1, are very similar to those caused by previous omicron subvariants, according to experts. While the latest COVID-19 ...

Some of them were carried by earlier variants such as alpha and beta. Read more here. All the most significant COVID-19 variations today are descending from omicron. After the original omicron ...

An updated vaccine dose bolsters the body's defences against emerging COVID-19 variants, says Dr Leong. In light of reinfection and transmission risks, Dr Leong underscored that updated ...

A wave of COVID-19 cases, many of them the new XEC variant, has led to an increase in COVID-related hospitalisations in Queensland. The number of people in hospital with COVID-19 in the first half ...