The COVID-19 pandemic has been a fatal disruption at the start of the twenty-first century, with long-reaching consequences. From 2020 to 2022 there were 732 million COVID-19 cases globally, 269 ...

With the rise of omicron came the fall of long-lasting protection from reinfection with the pandemic coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, according to a study published in Nature. Using population-wide data from ...

Our previous study in children and young people (CYP) at 3- and 6-months post-infection showed that 12–16% of those infected with the Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant of SARS-CoV-2 met the research ...

New research from the University of East Anglia has found that wearing face masks did not lower the risk of COVID infection following the initial surge of the omicron variant. The analysis of official ...

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Austrian authorities urged residents to rethink their New Year's Eve party plans as the omicron variant of COVID-19 spreads around the globe. Austria announced new virus restrictions on Wednesday that ...

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 ...

Vaccination with the updated COVID-19 mRNA vaccine containing the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 omicron JN.1 lineage was not associated with an increased risk for 29 adverse events, ...

For months, a purported warning has spread on social media about an alleged "new COVID-Omicron XBB variant" — a new strain of the coronavirus that has spread globally since early 2020. Framed as ...

A key step in the origin of many pandemics occurs when an animal-borne virus infects humans and then evolves to spread more efficiently from person to person. That is why scientists and physicians ...