Reputable news organizations such as Reuters, Agence France-Presse (AFP) and South African news website News24 debunked the ...

Over 20 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is set to face another hurdle in moving past the virus: the omicron variant. Doctors in South Africa last week discovered omicron, but the mutation ...

New research shows that after the body's defenses kill the virus behind COVID-19, leftover digested chunks of SARS-CoV-2 ...

A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine evaluated the burden and risk of post-acute sequelae of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (PASC) during the pre-Delta, Delta, and ...

Right now, we suspect this new variant is more transmissible, but that needs to be confirmed. Also, we have no idea about the severity of disease that Omicron causes. This is something we may get more ...

A new coronavirus variant revived old conspiracy theories this week as widely shared social media posts falsely claimed the omicron variant was nothing but a cover-up for darker agendas. Some online ...

The dominant variant of the coronavirus has proved to be not only staggeringly infectious, but an evolutionary marvel. By Carl Zimmer By November 2021, nearly two years after the coronavirus emerged ...

A spate of new studies on lab animals and human tissues are providing the first indication of why the Omicron variant causes milder disease than previous versions of the coronavirus. In studies on ...

The new Omicron variant of coronavirus, with its many mutations and seemingly quick spread in South Africa, is worrying scientists and government officials. But doctors want to remind Americans that ...

The new omicron coronavirus mutant speeding around the world may bring another wave of chaos, threatening to further stretch hospital workers already struggling with a surge of delta cases and upend ...