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Even as SARS-CoV-2 gets better at spreading and evading some of the immune protection that people have built through infections or vaccination, new variants inevitably arise. That’s been the case with ...

The subvariant of Omicron is becoming more common in the United States but probably won’t cause another large spike. By Carl Zimmer As the Omicron coronavirus surge subsides, researchers are keeping ...

The latest variant, or sublineage, of SARS-CoV-2 to emerge on the scene, BA.2.86, has public health experts on alert as COVID-19 hospitalizations begin to rise and the new variant makes its way across ...

News about the BA.2 omicron subvariant continues to grow as it becomes the dominant COVID strain not just in the Midwest but across the U.S., but what should you be watching for? Chicago's health ...

Of additional concern, BA.2.75 may differ antigenically from BA.2. The receptor-binding domain of the spike (S) protein of SARS-CoV-2 is capable of inducing neutralizing antibodies and is the major ...

After a brief two-month plateau, COVID-19 cases are rising again in the United States, propelled by the Omicron BA.2 subvariant and its more transmissible descendants. The uptick has experts worried, ...