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 ...

Hybrid immunity (a combination of natural and vaccine-induced immunity) provides additional immune protection against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) reinfection. Today, people are commonly ...

And then, the day after the turkey, the pandemic delivered a big new surprise. Researchers in Botswana and South Africa alerted the world that a highly mutated version of the virus had emerged and was ...

Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR positive participants (n = 276, aged 10–20 years) were prospectively recruited in ...

The omicron variant is less likely to cause long COVID-19 compared to the coronavirus’s original strain, according to a Swiss study of 1,201 healthcare workers. The research is awaiting peer review, ...

The holidays spurred a new jump in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, coinciding with an early, severe flu season and a wave of respiratory syncytial virus or RSV — which many are dubbing a ...

A new omicron coronavirus subvariant dubbed XBB.1.5 now accounts for an estimated 40.5 percent of all US COVID-19 cases amid a winter wave that is driving up hospitalizations, particularly in places ...

Manal Mohammed is a senior lecturer of medical microbiology at the University of Westminster. Since the COVID variant Omicron emerged in late 2021, it has rapidly evolved into multiple subvariants.

Scientists, in a study published online in the journal Cell, found that the BQ and XBB subvariants are "barely susceptible to neutralization" by the vaccines, including the new omicron boosters. This ...

Manal Mohammed does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...