In a recent study published in the Nature Communications journal, researchers monitored the changing symptom profiles associated with different severe acute respiratory syndrome CoV-2 (SARS-CoV-2) ...
As EG.5, the predominant coronavirus strain spreads across the country, public health officials have voiced concerns about another new variant, BA.2.86, which has been nicknamed "Pirola." A newly ...
A remarkably mutated coronavirus variant classified as BA.2.86 seized scientists' attention last week as it popped up in four countries, including the US. So far, the overall risk posed by the new ...
Panel A shows spike protein sequences for the omicron BA.2, BA.2.75.2, XBB.1, BA.5, BF.7, and BQ.1.1 subvariants; mutations as compared with the WA1/2020 spike protein are shown. Mutations as compared ...
In the cohort that received the BA.5-containing bivalent booster, the neutralizing activity against all the omicron subvariants as compared with that against WA1/2020 was better than in the other two ...
Heading into the fall and winter, health officials and the public alike are better equipped to combat COVID-19 than at any point since the pandemic began in 2019, thanks mainly to a stronger wall of ...
A COVID-19 variant once considered rare has tripled in U.S. cases in the past two weeks, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The mutated strain, called BA.2.86, accounts for ...
One day after it was revealed that a new highly-mutated Omicron subvariant had arrived in California, Los Angeles Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer announced the first case had been unidentified ...