COVID-19 cases and deaths have been falling across the U.S. for several weeks as the omicron wave recedes. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a new subvariant of omicron is ...

The holiday season also means holiday travel, and that means navigating COVID protocols in airports, hotels, or even just to be around family. Currently, more than 1,000 people are dying of COVID each ...

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

NEW YORK -- This holiday season held promise for Americans, many of whom spent Christmas 2020 in quarantine or away from loved ones due to a nasty winter COVID-19 surge. Yet in the last week or so, ...

The dizzying speed of omicron’s spread has left Americans questioning much of what they know about COVID-19, especially following holiday travel. “This is hitting us at a very inopportune time,” said ...

The omicron variant is offering more hints about what it may have in store as it spreads around the globe: A highly transmissible virus that may cause less severe disease, and one that can be slowed — ...

The new omicron variant took only a few weeks to live up to dire predictions about how hugely contagious it is. But scientists don't yet know if it causes more severe disease even as the world faces ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Scientists are reporting traces of the COVID-19 variant omicron in sewage from multiple cities across the state of California, including in Southern California. This means the next ...

There's growing evidence that omicron causes less severe disease than previous variants. Does that mean SARS-CoV-2 is evolving into a more mild... Why omicron may cause less harm — and what it means ...

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The symptoms of COVID-19 mimic those of the flu, adding to parents' confusion. Amid the omicron surge and the return to school, daycare and work after the winter holidays, it can be an anxious time ...