University of Washington research predicts the omicron wave will infect more than 400,000 people a day in the U.S. when it crests in about six weeks. Omicron will cause more infections but lower ...

The first known meta-analysis of how SARS-CoV-2 variant type and time since infection influence long-COVID symptoms ties Omicron to brain fog and paresthesia (numbness and tingling), while earlier ...

White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday that more and more data indicate that the omicron variant of COVID-19 may not cause as many severe infections as past strains. However, he ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- As mask mandates end in some parts of the country, 99% of counties in the US are still seeing high COVID transmission. New infections are averaging nearly 250,000 a day, and health ...

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - The COVID-19 omicron variant is "just raging around the world," the White House's top medical adviser said Sunday, and President Joe Biden is planning to give "a stark warning ...

Moderna’s Omicron-adapted COVID-19 vaccines appear to reduce the risk of hospitalization and death in adults who are not pregnant or have a weakened immune system, according to a rapid review ...

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 ...

Omicron was first detected by South African scientists and has so far been reported in at least 89 countries. [Courtesy] As Omicron variant of Covid-19 continues to spread across the world, scientists ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Initially, enduring COVID had one redeeming quality: It gave you some short-term immunity from getting infected again. But the new omicron subvariants are shattering that trend ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- It is "reasonably likely" to expect the pandemic to draw to a close as soon as a month from today, though COVID-19 is likely to stay, according to UCSF's Chair of the Department of ...