Omicrons

Doctor Immanuel Hardtmann holds a syringe with the vaccine Moderna in a temporary vaccination center inside the Excursion boat Alexander von Humboldt on the first day of the #HierWirdGeimpft (Get Vaccinated Here) Covid-19 vaccination…

An infection with BA.2 or stealth can be detected by coronavirus home tests kits, however they cannot indicate which variant is responsible for the infection (Image: Shutterstock)It is reported that this stealth subvariant of omicron is the…

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, it felt like the virus was everywhere — and on everything. Some people washed their mail or wore gloves to the grocery store, while policymakers cordoned off playgrounds and encouraged businesses…

A doctor monitors a Covid-19 patient in the Covid-19 intensive care unit of the community hospital in Germany on April 28, 2021.RONNY HARTMANN | AFP | Getty ImagesLONDON — Covid cases are rising in Europe, with an increasing number being…

The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has been so contagious that it may have seemed a foregone conclusion that if one person in a household became ill, other people living there would catch the virus, too.But that turns out to be less…

Global COVID-19 cases surpassed 400 million on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, as the highly contagious Omicron variant dominates the outbreak, pushing health systems in several countries to the brink of capacity. The Omicron…

By now, the Omicron wave of the coronavirus has crested in much of the United States. But the size the wave, which broke records for national cases and hospitalizations, has given regulators and scientists an opportunity to better assess…

As nurses and doctors struggle with a record-breaking wave of Omicron cases, evolutionary biologists are engaged in a struggle of their own: figuring out how this world-dominating variant came to be.When the Omicron variant took off in…

Covid-related absences are creating headaches for businesses that were struggling to hire workers even before Omicron. Restaurants and retail stores have cut back hours. Broadway shows called off performances. Airlines canceled thousands of…

Even if every eligible Canadian is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, more than two-thirds of people in the country believe that won’t be enough to stop the spread of the virus’ Omicron variant, according to the results of a new…