The fast-spreading BA.5 subvariant of Omicron and its close relative BA.4 now make up around 95% of COVID-19 cases in the U.S., according to estimates published Tuesday by the Centers for Disease ...

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The emergence of immune-escape variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 warrants the use of sequence-adapted vaccines to provide protection against coronavirus disease 2019. A total ...

Therefore, we collected serum samples from participants who had received three doses of either of the original monovalent mRNA vaccines followed by one dose of a bivalent vaccine targeting BA.4–BA.5 ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday it is tracking a recently discovered COVID-19 strain, BA.2.86, after a case of the highly mutated variant was discovered in ...

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 ...

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 ...