There’s still time to “enhance our preparedness” with vaccinations, he said. While the new omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus has not yet been detected in the United States, it will "inevitably" ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Now that the omicron variant has reached the U.S. via the Bay Area, the question follows, what happens next for vaccines, public policy and research? UCSF has confirmed they're ...

In just the past two weeks, many of us are finding out about so many people who have contracted COVID-19. Dr. David Hamer, an infectious disease attending physician at Boston Medical Center, says ...

In less than a month, the omicron variant of COVID-19 has gone from being first detected in the US to the dominant variant circulating. According to the most recent CDC data released on Christmas, ...

A new symptom of COVID-19 is showing up in kids under age 5 who have been infected with the omicron variant. Doctors say cases of croup are on the rise. "What we're seeing with omicron is the virus is ...

The new coronavirus variant, omicron, has now shown up in about 60 countries, and the picture emerging in places like Europe is not good. There, omicron is spreading remarkably fast, and officials ...

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 ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention strengthened recommendations for booster doses of coronavirus vaccine Monday, saying all adults should get boosted six months after the second dose of ...

A new set of COVID-19 subvariants has been significantly increasing in prevalence but the strains, known as FLiRT, are not expected to cause more serious illness than prior versions of the virus.

While the new omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus has not yet been detected in the United States, it will "inevitably" arrive, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday. "We all know when you have a virus that ...